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.

Mar 13, 2025 · Mars and Deimos viewed by Hera's TIRI - Hera’s Thermal Infrared Imager, supplied by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (), images at mid-infrared wavelengths to chart surface temperature, in the process revealing physical properties such as roughness, particle size distribution and porosity.ESA’s Hera mission scientist Michael Kueppers explains: “These instruments have been tried out ...

Hera is a spacecraft developed by the European Space Agency for its space safety program. Its primary mission objective is to study the Didymos binary asteroid system that was impacted four years earlier by the NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft and contribute to validation of the kinetic impact method to deviate a near ...

Mar 10, 2025 · Hera Mars flyby. On Wednesday 12 March 2025 Hera – ESA's first Space Safety mission – comes to within 5000 km of the surface of the red planet and 300 km of Mars’s more distant and enigmatic moon Deimos. During this flyby Hera is performing observations of both Mars and the city-sized Deimos.

Mar 13, 2025 · The space probe, named Hera, was launched on Oct. 7, 2024, and is on a mission to gather close-up data about the Dimorphos asteroid, the European Space Agency said in a news release.

Mar 14, 2025 · The operators of the European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft were bewitched by the sci-fi aesthetics of the pictures. “We were waiting with impatience to get these images,” said Patrick ...

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.

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.

Oct 7, 2024 · A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches the European Space Agency's Hera asteroid mission to the binary asteroids Didymos and Dimorphos from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Oct. 7,...

Oct 8, 2024 · The European Space Agency ’s first planetary defense spacecraft, Hera, has departed planet Earth. Its destination is a unique asteroid among the over 1.3 million cataloged in our Solar System—the only one whose orbit has been altered by human intervention.