Part of the first test of asteroid deflection. Launching October 2024 on a mission to the binary asteroid system Didymos.
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What's better than sending 1⃣ planetary defence spacecraft to a binary asteroid? How about sending 3⃣!
Read our downloadable Hera Launch Kit to learn how
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will deploy two CubeSats, then network with them to fly safe and exchange data:
How will our
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for planetary defence power itself, move through space and reach its target asteroid?
Find out everything you'd ever want to know in our Hera Launch Kit - downloadable here:
The
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for asteroid planetary defence will take selfies once in space - here is the approximate field of view of its Spacecraft Monitoring Camera, looking over Hera's instrument-hosting 'Asteroid Deck'
📽️Spacecraft are among the most complex machines ever created - look inside
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,
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's first planetary defence mission, designed for asteroid exploration in deep space, to see how ESA and European industry put it together
Today we completed MMO fueling activities. Tomorrow setting up for MMH. This is when we need 👨🚀 a big thank you to all teams involved
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📽️
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,
@ESA
's first Planetary Defence spacecraft is nearing launch. Hera will probe the lingering mysteries of a unique asteroid - the sole body in our Solar System to have had its orbit shifted by human action
It takes a continent to make a deep space mission...
18
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Member States plus Japan came together to make the
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for asteroid planetary defence, check out the full details in our new Hera Launch Kit:
The Hera launch kit is now available! JAXA's Thermal InfraRed Imager TIRI📸 is mounted at a good location(B in the figure) on the top deck of the spacecraft.✨
Treat yourself ahead of our
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launch!
A wide range of Hera merch - T-shirts, polo shirts, hoodies, sweatshirts, backpacks, journals, patches and pins - now available from our ESA Space Shop: