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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 ...
ESA launches Hera mission to return to deflected asteroid in bid to learn how to protect Earth
Hera will survey the asteroid deflected by NASA's DART spacecraft, the results of which could lay the foundation of Earth's ...
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 ...
A spacecraft is on its way to a harmless asteroid slammed by NASA in a previous save-the-Earth test
Scientists are eager to examine the impact’s aftermath up close to know exactly how effective Dart was and what changes might ...
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 ...
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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 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 Asteroid Mission Hera Launches Despite Poor Weather
A European mission to investigate an asteroid hit by the first test of Earth's planetary defences blasted off Monday despite a hurricane bearing down on Florida.
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 ...
SpaceX Launches ESA’s Hera Asteroid Mission
The European Space Agency’s Hera mission will investigate an asteroid that NASA deliberately struck with another spacecraft ...
SpaceX, ESA launch Hera spacecraft to study impact of NASA's DART mission
SpaceX and the European Space Agency will launch a mission on Monday to an asteroid's moon. NASA tried to knock off its path ...
SpaceX launches European asteroid probe as hurricane weather closes in
Despite an initially dismal forecast, SpaceX got a break in the weather to send Europe's Hera asteroid probe on its way.