1 day ago · Activating a trio of instruments, Hera imaged the surface of the red planet as well as the face of Deimos, the smaller and more mysterious of Mars’s two moons. Mars and Deimos viewed by Hera's Hyperscout H. Launched on 7 October 2024, Hera is on its way to visit the first asteroid to have had its orbit altered by human action.

1 day ago · Hera is a subsequent European Space Agency mission designed to get a closer look at the effect of the crash. The craft is around the size of a small car, weighing 1081 kilograms when fully fuelled.

103 Hera is a moderately large main-belt asteroid with an orbital period of 4.44 years. It was discovered by Canadian-American astronomer James Craig Watson on September 7, 1868, [ 6 ] and named after Hera , queen and fifth in power of the Olympian gods in Greek mythology .

Demonstrating new technologies from autonomous navigation around an asteroid to low gravity proximity operations, Hera will be humankind’s first probe to rendezvous with a binary asteroid system and Europe’s flagship Planetary Defender.

Oct 7, 2024 · ESA’s first planetary defence spacecraft has departed planet Earth. The Hera mission is headed to a unique target among the more than 1.3 million known asteroids in our Solar System – the only body to have had its orbit shifted by human action – to solve lingering mysteries associated with its deflection.By sharpening scientific ...

Mar 6, 2025 · The Hera Space Companion provides updates on the European Space Agency’s Hera Project, part of a global effort to defend earth against an asteroid strike that could have catastrophic effects. The satellite was launched in October 2024 and is expected to reach the binary asteroid system of Didymos and its moon Dimorphos.

Aug 1, 2024 · HERA is a unique 650-square-foot habitat split among two floors and a loft, designed to serve as an analog for isolation, confinement, and remote conditions in exploration scenarios.

Oct 7, 2024 · Hera is a planetary defence mission under development at the European Space Agency (ESA) - launching in October 2024. Its objectives are to investigate the Didymos binary asteroid, including the very first assessment of its internal properties, and to measure in great detail the outcome of NASA's DART mission kinetic impactor test.

Sep 26, 2024 · The Hera mission is due to launch on Oct. 7, 2024, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Hera will travel to a binary near-Earth asteroid system – Didymos and its moonlet Dimorphos.

Oct 8, 2024 · Hera is traveling to the asteroid moon Dimorphos to investigate the aftermath of humanity’s first planetary defense test in 2022. It was the first true test of our ability to crash a...