ESA’s Hera mission has launched to asteroid binary as Falcon 9 returns to flight
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hera mission, which will travel to asteroid Didymos and its moon Dimorphos as a follow-up to NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, beat weather odds and successfully launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. This flight, the 95th Falcon flight of 2024, was the first Falcon 9 mission to fly after the second stage deorbit burn anomaly that occurred during the Crew-9 mission on Sept. 28.
Published by NASASpaceflight on 10/07/2024