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 ...
SpaceX Cleared to Launch European Space Agency's Hera Mission After FAA Scrutiny
SpaceX is set to launch the European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft aboard its Falcon 9 rocket on Monday. The FAA cleared ...
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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 ...
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Spacecraft heads to destroyed asteroid
A spacecraft launched to study a small, harmless astroid hit by NASA two years ago to practice blasting asteroids that ...
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SpaceX launches Hera asteroid mission Monday, but delays Europa Clipper because of Hurricane Milton
Hera will fly back to the same binary asteroid system tasked to perform a post-impact survey of the DART target, the smaller Dimorphos asteroid that orbits the larger Didymos. “Hera will turn the ...
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Spacecraft is on its way to asteroid slammed by NASA in previous save-the-Earth test
A spacecraft has blasted off to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash. It's the second part of a planetary defense test ...
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.
Lift-Off! SpaceX Launches Planetary Defense Hera Mission to Asteroid
The mission is heading out into space to study the impact of NASA's successful high-speed collision with an asteroid in 2022.