Europe's Hera spacecraft on way to study asteroid Dimorphos
ESA’s Hera mission is headed to Dimorphos, the asteroid NASA crashed into
The ESA spacecraft embarked on a two-year journey to the asteroid Didymos and its moonlet Dimorphos on Monday.
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The Hera spacecraft is on its way to the binary asteroid system Didymos / Dimorphos. This mission has an ambitious goal: understanding the consequences of a deliberate asteroid deflection. Hera,
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A European spacecraft is on its way to get an up-close look at an asteroid that NASA deliberately crashed its own vehicle into two years ago.
A European spacecraft launches to perform a crash scene investigation on an asteroid
A NASA spacecraft knocked into an asteroid two years ago to test planetary defense. Now, a new mission will inspect the damage, with the goal of helping future asteroid deflection.
Europe’s Hera Mission Launches to Visit an Asteroid Smacked by NASA
The news was a relief for Fitzsimmons and the entire Hera team.
SpaceX will launch Europe's Hera asteroid probe today: Watch it live
SpaceX will launch Europe's Hera spacecraft on Monday (Oct. 7) toward the asteroid Dimorphos for a post-impact evaluation, and you can watch the liftoff live.
ESA’s Hera mission launched aboard SpaceX, to probe NASA knocked off asteroid Dimorphos
ESA has launched the first planetary defense Hera spacecraft aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 to investigate NASA-deflected Dimorphos asteroid.
European Space Agency launches Hera mission to investigate asteroid ‘crash-scene’
Impact zone The European Space Agency’s Hera mission will perform a close-up examination of DART’s 2022 impact of Dimorphos. (Courtesy: SpaceX) The European Space Agency (ESA) has launched a €360m mission to perform a close-up “crash-scene” investigation of the 150 m-diameter asteroid Dimorphos,
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