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SpaceX launches Hera asteroid mission

Astronomy · 2h

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.

Hosted on MSN · 29m

What is the Hera program? Inside ESA's mission to study asteroid altered by NASA with SpaceX's Falcon 9

What is the European Space Agency's Hera program? The ESA launched satellites on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Monday morning that will study an asteroid that was struck by a NASA spacecraft

Scientific American · 4h

Europe’s Hera Mission Launches to Visit an Asteroid Smacked by NASA

The news was a relief for Fitzsimmons and the entire Hera team.

NASA, Binary asteroid and European Space Agency

The Associated Press on MSN · 1d

A spacecraft is on its way to a harmless asteroid slammed by NASA in a previous save-the-Earth test

The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rocketed away on a two-year journey to the small, harmless asteroid rammed by NASA two years ago in a dress rehearsal for the day a killer space rock threatens Earth. Launched by SpaceX from Cape Canaveral, it’s the second part of a planetary defense test that could one day help save the planet.

BBC · 9h

Spacecraft launches towards asteroid knocked off course by Nasa

A spacecraft is on its way to visit an asteroid that US space agency Nasa knocked off course in 2022. The Hera craft launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 10:52 local time (15:52BST) on Monday. It is part of an international mission to see if we can stop dangerous asteroids hitting Earth.

Gizmodo · 1d

NASA Punched an Asteroid in 2022. Another Probe Is Now on Its Way to the Wreckage

A follow-up mission to DART, Hera will travel to a binary asteroid to observe the aftermath of NASA's wildly successful kinetic impact test.

Inverse1h

What Did NASA’s DART Mission Really Do To That Asteroid? We Are About To Find Out

Hera will be beginning a two-year journey past Mars and out to the asteroid belt where it will help us understand how to ...

EuropaWire5h

Tag Archives: Asteroid Deflection Techniques

The Hera planetary defense mission, launched successfully aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, aims to assess the feasibility of deflecting hazardous asteroids threatening Earth. This mission follows NASA ...

10h

Exact time Big Ben-sized 'city killer' asteroid monitored by NASA will 'skim' Earth today

The space rock, named 2016 JG38, after the year it was discovered, is classed by the US space agency as a "Near Earth Object" ...

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