An Italian cubesat called LICIACube will record the NASA's DART spacecraft intentionally smashing into the asteroid Dimorphos on September 26, according to space.com.

LICIACube, or the Light Italian Cubesat for Imaging of Asteroids is a 14 kilogram micro-satellite which was aboard on DART mission. DART deployed the cubesat on September 11 which allowed the cubesat to relocate itself to a safe position in 15 days.

"LICIACube will be released from the dispenser on one of DART's external panels, and will be guided (braking and rotating) to start its autonomous journey toward Dimorphos," said Elena Mazzotta Epifani, an astronomer at Italy's National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) and a co-investigator on the LICIACube mission, according to space.com.

The astronomer said the cubesat will point its cameras toward both the asteroid system and DART for some pictures.

The cubesat will watch the collision from a safe distance of 1,000 kilometers when the 610 kilogram spacecraft slams the asteroid.

According to NASA, DART mission, or Double Asteroid Redirection Test, is the world's first full-scale planetary defense test, to prove a spacecraft can navigate to a target asteroid and intentionally collide with it, redirecting it to a new orbit.

Its target is a binary, near-Earth asteroid system Didymos, consisting of a roughly 780-meter-diameter Didymos and the smaller 160-meter-size Dimorphos orbiting it. DART aims to impact Dimorphos to change its course within the binary system. Dimorphos shows no threat to Earth. The ground-breaking experiment is a test for possible future planetary defense.