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 ...
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
Scientists are eager to examine the impact’s aftermath up close to know exactly how effective Dart was and what changes might ...
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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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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 ...
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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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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 ...
Spacecraft to launch towards knocked off course asteroid
The mission aims to re-visit the asteroid Nasa diverted when it crashed a probe into it.
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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 ...
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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 to probe asteroid deflected by defense test
In a scene that sounds straight out of science fiction, the spacecraft deliberately crashed into the pyramid-sized asteroid Dimorphos in 2022, roughly 11 million kilometers from Earth. The ...
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European Space Agency launches mission to study asteroid deflected by NASA
NASA’s DART mission successfully deflected the asteroid Dimorphos through kinetic impact in 2022, altering its trajectory. ESA’s Hera mission, launching in October 2023, aims to study this ...