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Europe's Hera spacecraft on way to study asteroid Dimorphos

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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.

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A European spacecraft launches to perform a crash scene investigation on an asteroid

A NASA spacecraft knocked into an asteroid two years ago to test planetary defense. Now, a new mission will inspect the damage, with the goal of helping future asteroid deflection.

Europe launches Hera asteroid probe on SpaceX rocket

Europe's Hera asteroid probe blasted off from Florida on a SpaceX rocket on Monday, beginning a two-year voyage to revisit an asteroid bashed off course by NASA's DART spacecraft in 2022.

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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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Rocket blasts off into space to investigate asteroid crash site

A rocket has blasted off into space on a mission to discover what happened when a spacecraft intentionally crashed into a ...

Mission to probe smashed asteroid launches despite hurricane

Europe's Hera probe successfully launched Monday on a mission to inspect the damage done by a NASA spacecraft that smashed ...

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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, ...

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