22 November 2021
NASA's asteroid impact mission due to launch Wednesday
...course. Or at least that is what the team behind the mission are hoping. “DART will be the first demonstration of the ‘... followed up with ESA’s Hera mission that will also head to Didymos to conduct post-impact investigations. Hera will arrive at ...
29 November 2019
Hera mission is approved as ESA receives biggest ever budget
...based gravitational wave observatory, and the Clearspace active removal mission. ESA’s ambitious mission that will be humankind’s first probe to rendezvous with a binary asteroid system, Hera, was also given approval at the meeting. “You have a happy...
30 June 2019
Asteroid day 2019
... a wayward asteroid headed towards Earth - programmes that both NASA and ESA have initiated with their Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) and HERA missions respectively. Just this week, astronomers discovered a car-size asteroid hours...
