Hera probe headed to study deflection of 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.
🚀 Planetary defense: Hera probe headed to study the deflection of asteroid Dimorphos
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,
Hera probe heads off to see aftermath of DART's asteroid impact
The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft is on its way to do follow-up observations of Dimorphos, two years after an earlier probe knocked the mini-asteroid into a different orbital path around a bigger space rock.
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.
Weather may delay launch of mission to study deflected asteroid
Stormy weather has threatened to delay the launch of Europe's Hera spacecraft, which is scheduled to blast off on Monday, SpaceX has said.
SpaceX launch: Europe's Hera spacecraft on way to study asteroid Dimorphos
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.
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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NASA Punched an Asteroid in 2022. Another Probe Is Now on Its Way to the Wreckage
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A spacecraft is on its way to a harmless asteroid slammed by NASA in a previous save-the-Earth test
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A spaceship punched an asteroid — we’re about to learn what came next
ESA’s Hera mission will study a rock called Dimorphos, which was blasted by NASA, to work out how successful that approach ...
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 ...