Science campaign
AIDA
The Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment — an international collaboration to test and characterise asteroid deflection at the Didymos–Dimorphos binary. NASA's DART performed the kinetic impact in 2022; ESA's Hera will survey the result in detail, together turning a one-off experiment into a repeatable, well-understood technique.
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- Type: Science campaign
- Domain: Scientific connections
Experience system V6
Science campaign scientific profile
A graph-grounded scientific layout that adapts to available evidence, imagery, relations, and source coverage.
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Observe
The page falls back to graph and source evidence when no cleared image is available.
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Measure
Measurement panels use graph coverage, catalog identifiers, and source availability without inventing values.
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Locate
Associated with DART.
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Connect
2 graph relations shape the knowledge viewport.
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- Science campaign
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- Verified sources
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Scientific map
Atlas context
- Associated with
DART
- Associated with
Hera
Original SVG diagram
Scientific schematic
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- Science campaign
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- Not recorded
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Curated next objects
DART
DART was the first planetary-defence test, deliberately impacting the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos to change its orbit.
space missionHera
ESA's planetary-defense mission to the Didymos–Dimorphos binary, launched in 2024 to survey the aftermath of NASA's DART impact in detail.
asteroid65803 Didymos
A near-Earth binary asteroid whose small moon, Dimorphos, was struck by NASA's DART in 2022 — humanity's first test of asteroid deflection.
asteroidDimorphos
The small moon of the near-Earth asteroid Didymos and the impact target of NASA's DART mission — the first object whose orbit humans deliberately changed. ESA's Hera will survey the aftermath.
launch vehicleFalcon 9
Falcon 9 is a partially reusable two-stage orbital launch vehicle developed and operated by SpaceX.
deflection methodKinetic Impactor
Crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid at high speed to nudge its orbit — and getting an extra push from the plume of debris thrown off. NASA's DART did exactly this to the moonlet Dimorphos in 2022, measurably shortening its orbit; ESA's Hera is on its way to study the result up close, arriving in late 2026.
Data
Scientific data & provenance
Data & provenance
- Stable ID
science_campaign:aida- Type
- Science campaign
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- Scientific connections
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- 1.0.0
Dataset membership
Open data
In the graph export: graph.json · graph.jsonld
Planned API: GET /api/v0/entities/science_campaign:aida
Scientific quality
Substantial2 of 4 applicable dimensions complete, 1 partial
- Description
- Complete
- Source coverage
- Complete
- Relationship coverage
- Partial
- Review coverage
- None
- Citation coverage
- Not applicable
- Image coverage
- Not applicable
- Timeline coverage
- Not applicable
Scientific entity. Dimensions that cannot apply to this object are excluded rather than counted as gaps. See the evidence framework and authority dashboard.
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The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.
- NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.
Most NASA-produced imagery is in the public domain; individual items are checked for usage terms before publication.
- ESAEuropean Space Agency
European missions, observatories, and space science imagery.