Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging of Asteroids: mission and targets
Data as of 2026-10-04
Dates declared by the archive
- Project start
- November 24, 2021
- Declared end
- not declared
The start the archive declares is the start of the project, not the launch, and an end it does not declare does not mean the mission is still running.
In Galaxy
None of the targets this mission declares is in Galaxy’s catalogue.
A declared target is what the archive files the mission’s data under, not a record of observation.
Description published by the archive
The LICIACube mission was a mission of the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) that was carried by the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission impactor spacecraft to the vicinity of the Didymos system. It was then released 15 days before the DART impact into Dimorphos to observe the impact and aftermath of the collision of DART with Dimorphos.
Quoted in English, as the archive publishes it, read on October 4, 2026.
Other targets declared
- (65803) Didymos (1996 GT) (asteroid)
- (65803) Didymos I (Dimorphos) (asteroid)
Source
Identifier in the archive, which is its citation: urn:nasa:pds:context:investigation:mission.light_italian_cubesat_for_imaging_of_asteroids
NASA Planetary Data System, PDS Registry, investigation context products. Dates and targets read on September 29, 2026; how to cite the archive: https://pds.nasa.gov/datastandards/citing/