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 ...
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 ...
European mission departs Earth to investigate an asteroid wrecked by NASA
Two years ago, a NASA spacecraft smashed into a small asteroid millions of miles from Earth to test a technique that could ...
A spacecraft is on its way to a harmless asteroid slammed by NASA in a previous save-the-Earth test
The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rocketed away on a two-year journey to the small, harmless asteroid rammed by ...
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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 ...
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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 into an asteroid during the first test of Earth's planetary ...
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ESA’s Hera mission launched aboard SpaceX, to probe NASA knocked off asteroid Dimorphos
ESA has launched the first planetary defense Hera spacecraft aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 to investigate NASA-deflected Dimorphos ...
NASA smacked an asteroid in 2022. Now, a spacecraft is on the way for part 2.
Remember when NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in 2022? Today, a different probe was successfully launched to get a close-up look at the aftermath of the collision. About the ...
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SpaceX rocket launches Europe's Hera planetary defense probe to visit asteroid smacked by NASA
Hera launched Oct. 7 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, on a mission to study the asteroid that NASA's DART spacecraft smashed ...
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A spaceship punched an asteroid — we’re about to learn what came next
The solar-powered spacecraft, which is the size of a small car, will take two years to reach its target, the binary asteroid system of Didymos and Dimorphos between Earth and Mars, arriving in ...
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Hera mission set to revisit asteroid after NASA's redirection test
Two years after a NASA spacecraft slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos, another mission to map the space rock is about to launch. The data it collects will refine Earth’s planetary defences ...