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The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) to the Didymos asteroid system launched on November 24 at 6:21 UT (1:21 a.m. EST, 10:21 p.m. Nov. 23 PST) from Vandenberg Air Force Base Launch of the James Webb Space Telescope from Kourou, French Guiana, has been pushed back to 22 December. For more detail see the JWST launch page. The Lucy mission to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids launched successfully on 16 October at 09:34 UT (5:34 a.m. EDT). For more, see the NASA Press ReleaseThis Day in Planetary and Lunar Exploration History
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