A European spacecraft is set to soar away from the coast of Florida on Monday, the start of a journey to visit an asteroid that an earlier NASA mission deliberately crashed into in 2022. Hera, a car-size orbiter built by the European Space Agency,

SpaceX will launch Europe's Hera spacecraft toward the asteroid Dimorphos for a post-impact evaluation on Monday (Oct. 7), and you can watch the liftoff live. The European Space Agency's Hera mission will visit Dimorphos — the asteroid that NASA's DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft knocked off course in September 2022.

The Federal Aviation Administration on Sunday announced it was approving just one SpaceX Falcon 9 mission, although SpaceX has submitted its mishap report into why the second stage from last week’s Crew-9 mission failed to hit its planned target on reentry.