SpaceX launches Hera asteroid mission, but delays Europa Clipper because of Hurricane Milton
SpaceX returned to flight with its Falcon 9 rocket on Monday, sending up the Hera probe for the European Space Agency on its way to a pair of asteroids, but SpaceX and NASA have called off plans to launch the Falcon Heavy later this week on NASA's Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter's moon because of the approaching Hurricane Milton.
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.
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A spacecraft was deliberately crashed into an asteroid to see if we could change the course of passing rocks that pose a ...
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 ...
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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