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Hera: ESA's planetary defence mission - Animations:
April 2024 - Hera asteroid mission in flight
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- Title Hera: ESA's planetary defence mission - Animations - April 2024 - Hera asteroid mission in flight
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Hera is Europe’s contribution to an international planetary defence experiment. Following the DART mission’s impact with the Dimorphos asteroid in 2022 – modifying its orbit and sending a plume of debris thousands of kilometres out into space – Hera will return to Dimorphos to perform a close-up survey of the crater left by DART. The mission will also measure Dimorphos’ mass and make-up, along with that of the larger Didymos asteroid that Dimorphos orbits around.
Hera is scheduled for launch by Falcon-9 in October 2024October 2024 by SpaceX Falcon 9 launcher from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA, with a launch window opening on 7 October and closing on 27 October. It will rendezvous with the Didymos and Dimorphos asteroid system about two years later.