It's odd to see Americans siding with Russia, to be honest.

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Deflecting a large, irregular, rotating mass in deep space is a pretty different mission from launching a missile at LEO targets or launching an explosive vehicle from a satellite currently in orbit. The people I know that worked DART are now working other civil space missions like Dragonfly, the mission to Titan.

I guess they both involve orbital dynamics to calculate the rendezvous, but they're very different orbital regimes.

Anyway, I disagree that it was military adjacent or more appropriate to be done via military funding.

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