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Hera asteroid mission takes stunning images of Mars’s moon Deimos
A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...
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Cubesats on Europe's Hera asteroid mission phone home after Oct. 7 launch
Riding with Hera are two small cubesats, named Juventas and Milani. The shoebox-sized craft are stashed inside little "garages" on board Hera called Deep Space Deployers, and they will be released ...
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Conversations in space: How Hera is using AI to share its mission to defend Earth from asteroids
These “nanosatellites,” called Milani and Juventas, are tasked with learning more about the result of the impact and the structure of the asteroid. A collaborative effort, Hera is a model of ...
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'Changed orbit': SpaceX to launch ESA’s asteroid mission to study aftermath of NASA's DART collision
The Hera spacecraft, along with two cubesats named Milani and Juventas, will be launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The liftoff is ...