NASA Schedules Robotic Spacecraft Launch

Nathan writes "NASA has finally set the launch date for their first robotic spacecraft, intended to "rendezvous in orbit with other satellites without any human intervention", to the 15th of April. The spacecraft, called "DART" as an acronym for "Demonstration of Autonomous Rendezvous", cost $110 million dollars and weighs 800 pounds."

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Which idiot abusing modding privledges...

[sandstorming]

Just modded down the first 11 posts to 0?

Cost and weight in a convenient unit

[kfg]

To maintain the Slashdot tradition of technical excellence in scientific units, such as the Library of Congress, the Olympic sized swimming pool and the telephone booth, I have managed to come up with a single unit which can be used to describe both the cost and the weight of a space faring vessel; and I bestow upon this revolutionary new satellite the honor of being the unit measure:

It is hearby declared to be one Anna Nicole Smith.

KFG

Re:STRIKE ME DOWN AND MORE WILL FILL MY PLACE

[ishepherd]

I didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition.