AIDA is a technology demonstration of the kinetic impactor concept. It is composed of the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft under Phase A at NASA and the AIM (Asteroid Impact Mission) spacecraft under Phase A/B1 at ESA, until late 2016.The combination of both spacecrafts is referred to as AIDA. The target characterization (AIM, including for the first time the direct investigation an asteroid internal structure) and impact (DART, first detailed large scale impact experiment on an asteroid) are planed for 2022. 

The workshop offers a forum for the community to keep abreast with the advances of the AIM and DART studies. As such these two concepts will be presented, in terms of design, payloads and objectives, followed by presentations and discussions related to the science and planetary defense aspects of AIDA. These will include the current knowledge of the Didymos binary Near-Earth asteroid, the target of AIDA, and a more general discussion on binary systems, regolith characteristics and mechanics, internal structures of asteroids, impact observing strategies, additional science opportunities during an impact demonstration and associated payloads, impact modeling and momentum transfer of an artificial projectile, ejecta dynamics, etc.