Spacecraft watches lonely Earth and moon fade into the distance
The European Space Agency's Hera craft, en route to an asteroid, recently captured footage of our planet and the moon, set ...
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ESA’s Hera mission CubeSats Successfully Transmit Signals from Deep Space En Route to Asteroid Dimorphos
Hera mission, part of an ambitious planetary defense initiative, has successfully received initial signals from its two ...
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ESA’s Hera mission is headed to Dimorphos, the asteroid NASA crashed into
The craft will reach its destination — the asteroid 65803 Didymos and its small moonlet Dimorphos — in 2026. Along the way, it will fly by Mars to receive a gravity assist and examine the ...
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Asteroid-Seeking Spacecraft Snaps Poignant Views Of Earth
ESA's Hera spacecraft as it would look in space. Dimorphos is a small moonlet that orbits the bigger asteroid Didymos. In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into Dimorphos to see if it could change ...
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A spacecraft to save humanity? How Hera will boost Earth’s planetary defense
The European Space Agency’s Hera mission is the first to send a spacecraft and two CubeSats to an asteroid in deep space.
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What Did NASA’s DART Mission Really Do To That Asteroid? We Are About To Find Out
The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft is on its way to check out the damage NASA’s DART mission did to an asteroid called Dimorphos. Hera launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape ...
SpaceX launches Europe’s Hera asteroid mission ahead of Hurricane Milton
The launch of another important mission, NASA's Europa Clipper, is on hold due to Hurricane Milton. Two years ago, a NASA spacecraft smashed into a small asteroid millions of miles from Earth to test ...
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European spacecraft launches for ‘crash scene investigation’ of first planetary defense test
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. A European ...
European Spacecraft Sends First Parting Images Of Earth And Moon From Space
"On Thursday 10 October and Friday 11 October, Hera’s asteroid deck, which houses the spacecraft’s instruments, was pointed back towards our planet and three of its instruments captured their first ...
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Cubesats on Europe's Hera asteroid mission phone home after Oct. 7 launch
DART, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, proved to be an unqualified success when it slammed into the 560-foot-wide (170 meters) asteroid Dimorphos, altering its orbit around the larger space ...
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Europe launches Hera asteroid probe on SpaceX rocket
The return visit to the Dimorphos asteroid two years after the historic collision marks the latest step in efforts to see whether an incoming small asteroid could, if needed, be deflected from ...
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Weather May Delay Mission To Study Asteroid Damaged By NASA Spacecraft
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) deliberately crashed into the pyramid-sized asteroid Dimorphos roughly 11 million kilometres (6.8 million miles) from Earth. The fridge-sized spacecraft ...