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SpaceX launches Hera asteroid mission Mon.

The New York Times on MSN · 45m

ESA’s Hera Asteroid Mission Launches in Florida on SpaceX Rocket

In humanity’s latest bid to avoid going the way of the dinosaurs, a European spacecraft soared away from the coast of Florida on Monday. The mission, Hera, will visit an asteroid that NASA deliberately struck with another spacecraft two years ago.

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Lift-Off! SpaceX Launches Planetary Defense Hera Mission to Asteroid

The mission is heading out into space to study the impact of NASA's successful high-speed collision with an asteroid in 2022.

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.

European Space Agency, NASA and asteroid

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A spacecraft is on its way to a harmless asteroid slammed by NASA in a previous save-the-Earth test

A spacecraft has blasted off to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash. The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rocketed away from Florida on Monday on a two-year journey to the small, harmless asteroid rammed by NASA in 2022.

Spacecraft launches to investigate asteroid threats to Earth

The European Space Agency will probe a harmless asteroid Nasa hit in 2022 as part of a "planetary defence test".

European spacecraft launches to a harmless asteroid that NASA deliberately crashed into in previous save-the-Earth test

European spacecraft launches to a harmless asteroid that NASA deliberately crashed into in previous save-the-Earth test

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NASA Punched an Asteroid in 2022. Another Probe Is Now on Its Way to the Wreckage

A follow-up mission to DART, Hera will travel to a binary asteroid to observe the aftermath of NASA's wildly successful ...

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Near-Earth asteroid data help probe possible fifth force in universe

In 2023, the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission returned a sample of dust and rocks collected on the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. In ...

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A Year With Bennu: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Reveals Intriguing Clues to Origin of Life on Earth

A year after receiving the largest asteroid sample via NASA's OSIRIS-REx, significant findings about early life and the solar ...

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Is Earth destined for another extinction-level asteroid event? | The Excerpt

Robin George Andrews, author of "How to Kill an Asteroid," joins The Excerpt to discuss how scientists are working to ...

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Asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs may have led to the invention of 'ant agriculture'

The event that wiped out the dinosaurs wasn't all bad. The low-light environment caused by the meteor impact some 66 million ...

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 ...

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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Back on Schedule After FAA Lifts Suspension

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket will relaunch on October 7 for the Hera mission, following FAA approval after last month's mishap.

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Investigating the possibility of using asteroid material to grow edible biomass for astronauts

A team of engineers and planetary scientists at Western University's Institute for Earth and Space Exploration, in Canada, ...

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