Europe’s Hera Mission Assesses Effectiveness of NASA’s DART Test

Hera spacecraft

ESA’s Hera has embarked on its mission to Dimorphos, the orbiting moonlet of a binary asteroid system known as Didymos.

Credit: European Space Agency
As the European Space Agency’s Hera planetary defense mission embarks on its two-year journey, it may have already validated one of its key objectives: Europe’s ability to put together and launch the spacecraft quickly. The European Space Agency (ESA) on Oct. 7 launched the Hera spacecraft on a...
Robert Wall

Robert Wall is Executive Editor for Defense and Space. Based in London, he directs a team of military and space journalists across the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific.

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