DART’s Planetary Defense Investigation and Achieving the Mission’s Level 1 Requirements: Current Status and Ongoing Activities

Nancy L Chabot1, Andrew Rivkin1, Andrew F. Cheng1, Elisabetta Dotto2, Olivier S Barnouin1, Eugene Fahnestock3, Derek C Richardson4, Angela M Stickle5, Cristina Thomas6 and DART Investigation Team, (1)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States, (2)INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Rome, Italy, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)University of Maryland, College Park, United States, (5)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (6)Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States