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LICIACube

Also known as Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging of Asteroids

Italian Space Agency (ASI) · Launched

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Completed · Success

LICIACube was a small spacecraft contributed by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) that split from DART before its impact with Dimorphos. It captured images of the impact and ejecta, and ASI reported that it successfully accomplished its goals.

Destinations
Launch vehicle
SpaceX Falcon 9
Launch site
Vandenberg Air Force Base, California
Countries
Italy
Mission types
Flyby

Chronology

Mission timeline

  1. Launch

    Launched with DART from Vandenberg

    Earth

  2. Deployment

    LICIACube separates from DART

    The flown release date was September11, fifteen days before the impact. The earlier ten-day plan does not establish the actual release schedule.

  3. Milestone

    Captured images after DART collided with Dimorphos

    Dimorphos

Mission architecture

Vehicles

  • LICIACube · Spacecraft

    Destinations: Dimorphos

Trajectory record

Time-dependent navigation trajectory

Source states place the model at the selected time. Reconstructed flight, estimates, predictions and historical mission plans are identified by interval; gaps remain visible.

J2000 · Sun-centered display · positions interpolated between source states

Coverage: September 11, 2022 to March 31, 2023

Source records and sampling assumptions are retained with the repository data. Model attitude and surface appearance are illustrative.

  • LICIACube: Reconstructed · September 11, 2022 to March 31, 2023

Provenance

Sources

Each source is listed once and labeled with the mission, event, trajectory, or destination/body context it supports.

Data verified through October 12, 2026