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Europe's Hera spacecraft on way to study asteroid Dimorphos

USA TODAY on MSN · 14h

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.

Jefferson Public Radio · 1h

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.

Hosted on MSN · 48m

Europe's Hera probe on its way to asteroid struck by Earth two years ago

The automobile-sized Hera will carry out the first detailed survey of a 'binary' – or double-body – asteroid, 65803 Didymos, which is orbited by a smaller body, Dimorphos.

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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 ...

Futurism on MSN8h

Europe Deploys Spacecraft to Investigate Extraterrestrial “Crash Scene”

Hera Time The Hera mission is officially underway. As CNN reports, the European Space Agency (ESA) just launched its ...

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 ...

19h

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, ...

15hon MSN

Rocket blasts off into space to investigate asteroid crash site

Hera is a planetary defence mission from the European Space Agency (Esa) that will investigate the Dimorphos asteroid. In ...

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