Europe assembles Hera spacecraft to eye aftermath of DART asteroid crash

Summary

The Hera spacecraft has recently been assembled in Bremen, Germany by OHB. Its mission is to observe the result of NASAʼs DART mission which impacted Dimorphos in 2022-09. The Hera spacecraft will now be sent to the Netherlands for testing by the European Space Agency (ESA). The craft is scheduled to be launched by SpaceX from Cape Canaveral on 2024-10.

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• Author: Andrew Jones
• Date: 2023-09-05
• Work: space.com
• Accessed: 2023-09-05

Further Reading

• Patrick Michel, et. al. (2022-07). “The ESA Hera Mission: Detailed Characterization of the DART Impact Outcome and of the Binary Asteroid (65803) Didymos”. The Planetary Science Journal, Volume 3, Number 7, Page 160. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ac6f52 . Accessed 2023-09-05. License: 🅭🅯 4.0.