29 November 2019
Hera mission is approved as ESA receives biggest ever budget
... humankind’s first probe to rendezvous with a binary asteroid system, Hera, was also given approval at the meeting. “You have ...the Didymos pair of near-Earth asteroids two years ahead of Hera, ESA’s partner NASA, will first perform a kinetic impact on...
September 2019
A new era in planetary defence missions
...reveal any effect of the mass of Didymos B on Hera’s radio signals. Hera’s imager will be essential to both the mission’s scientific... collaboration and coordinated communication efforts. As DART and Hera fly to Didymos in the next few years, they...
22 September 2021
Telescope built by Karoo locals releases data to astronomers around the world
... construction, Phase I observations were carried out in 2017-2018 throughout the Southern Summer using about 50 dishes. HERA is an array of 14-meter diameter dishes, packed closely together and pointing straight up at the sky. The telescope detects...
22 November 2021
NASA's asteroid impact mission due to launch Wednesday
... take place through February 2022. Dart is being followed up with ESA’s Hera mission that will also head to Didymos to conduct post-impact investigations. Hera will arrive at the asteroid system in 2026 and measure for example...
30 June 2019
Asteroid day 2019
... 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 before it collided with Earth...
29 June 2018
All things asteroid: Who, What, Where and When
... to assess the damage. “Essential information will be missing following the DART impact – which is where Hera comes in,” explains Hera manager Ian Carnelli. “Hera’s close-up survey will give us the mass of Didymoon, the shape of the crater, as well...
