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Hera mission set to revisit asteroid after NASA's redirection test
The European Space Agency is sending a probe to get a closer look at the asteroid Dimorphos, which had its orbit altered by ...
Nature2d
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 ...
ESA's Hera mission takes flight toward the asteroid deflected by NASA's DART probe two years ago
The European Space Agency's Hera mission will set off from Cape Canaveral on 7 October on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It will ...
Astronomy1d
NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid — and the Hera mission will survey the aftermath
Europe’s first planetary defense mission — a follow-up to NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test — will launch as early as ...
The Next Web2d
ESA’s ‘planetary defence mission’ has startups dreaming of asteroid mining
The Hera mission will explore an asteroid deflection test. It also gives startups a chance to refine their technologies.
ESA's Hera spacecraft set for asteroid 'crime scene investigation'
Europe's Hera probe is tentatively scheduled to launch Monday on a mission to inspect the damage a NASA spacecraft made when ...
Watch the Skies: Debris From NASA’s DART Asteroid Collision Could Spark a Meteor Display on Earth
NASA's DART mission in 2022 dramatically altered an asteroid's orbit, potentially sending debris toward Earth and Mars, ...
BBC2y
Dimorphos: Nasa flies spacecraft into asteroid in direct hit
Dart's camera returned an image per second, right up to the moment of impact with the target - a 160m-wide object called Dimorphos. What had been a steady image stream cut out as the probe was ...
Astronomy23d
Could we experience the first-ever human-made meteor shower?
A few grams of ultrafast-moving debris particles may also reach Earth in about seven years, but only tiny fragments that were blasted from Dimorphos’ surface at speeds exceeding 3,300 mph (1.5 ...
Daily Express1mon
Fallout from NASA's asteroid-smashing DART mission could hit Earth
The US space agency deliberately set its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft on a collision course with the asteroid, Dimorphos, two years ago. It smashed into the rock at about 15 ...
Hera mission headed to asteroid as part of planetary defense test to launch Monday
Liftoff of the ESA/NASA Hera mission is set for Monday, sending a spacecraft on a two year journey to a familiar asteroid ...