ESA’s Hera Planetary Defence Probe Launched on SpaceX Falcon 9
The European Space Agency’s Hera planetary defence probe has begun its two-year journey to a distant asteroid after being successfully launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Hera was developed under ESA’s Space Safety Programme and has been tasked with surveying the results of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (Dart) mission. The Dart mission tested […]
Published by European Spaceflight on 10/08/2024
