Demonstrating new technologies from autonomous navigation around an asteroid to low gravity proximity operations, Hera will be humankind’s first probe to rendezvous with a binary asteroid system and Europe’s flagship Planetary Defender.

3 days ago · Mars and Deimos viewed by Hera's TIRI - Hera’s Thermal Infrared Imager, supplied by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (), images at mid-infrared wavelengths to chart surface temperature, in the process revealing physical properties such as roughness, particle size distribution and porosity.ESA’s Hera mission scientist Michael Kueppers explains: “These instruments have been tried out ...

Hera is a spacecraft developed by the European Space Agency for its space safety program. Its primary mission objective is to study the Didymos binary asteroid system that was impacted four years earlier by the NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft and contribute to validation of the kinetic impact method to deviate a near ...

6 days ago · On Wednesday 12 March 2025 Hera – ESA's first Space Safety mission – comes to within 5000 km of the surface of the red planet and 300 km of Mars’s more distant and enigmatic moon Deimos. During this flyby Hera is performing observations of …

In the world’s first test of asteroid deflection, ESA’s Hera mission will perform a detailed post-impact survey of the asteroid Dimorphos – the orbiting Moonlet in a binary asteroid system known as Didymos.

2 days ago · The operators of the European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft were bewitched by the sci-fi aesthetics of the pictures. “We were waiting with impatience to get these images,” said Patrick ...

Oct 7, 2024 · The European Space Agency’s Hera mission lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Monday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

3 days ago · The space probe, named Hera, was launched on Oct. 7, 2024, and is on a mission to gather close-up data about the Dimorphos asteroid, the European Space Agency said in a news release.

Hera is a planetary defence mission under development at the European Space Agency (ESA) - launching in October 2024. Its objectives are to investigate the Didymos binary asteroid, including the very first assessment of its internal properties, and to measure in great detail the outcome of NASA's DART mission kinetic impactor test.

Oct 8, 2024 · Hera, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) first planetary defence space mission, launched on board a Space X Falcon 9 rocket and is bound for the asteroid Dimorphos 195 million km away.