European Space Agency launches Hera mission to investigate asteroid ‘crash-scene’
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, which was purposely hit by a NASA probe in 2022. Hera took off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral at 10:52 local time. The mission should reach the asteroid in December 2026.
The probe, an ESA project, will study the consequences of a deliberate impact by a NASA spacecraft against an asteroid in ...
The European Space Agency launched its Hera spacecraft to study an asteroid NASA crashed into two years ago. The mission aims ...
This year, a probe is heading back to see what happened In 2024, the European Space Agency (ESA ... This year, the Hera mission will lift-off to travel to investigate Dimorphos - one of the ...
A European mission to investigate an asteroid hit by the first test of Earth's planetary defences blasted off Monday despite a hurricane bearing down on Florida.
ESA will shortly be launching the Hera mission to investigate asteroid defense. The probe will investigate the effects of the DART impact on Dimorphos. The European Space Agency ESA is ...
NASA’s DART mission successfully deflected the asteroid Dimorphos through kinetic impact in 2022, altering its trajectory. ESA’s Hera mission, launching in October 2023, aims to study this ...
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