Hera
ESA · launched 2024
Surveying Didymos and Dimorphos, the pair NASA’s DART struck in 2022.
Right now · as of
Interplanetary cruise
197 million km (1.32 AU) from Earth; a signal takes 10 min 58 s
188 million km (1.26 AU) from the Sun, moving at 29.6 km/s relative to the Sun
Open in 3DThe flight
October 7, 2024
Launched on Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral SLC-40
March 12, 2025
Flies past Mars, 9,059 km away
From the trajectory NASA JPL Horizons publishes for it.
Hera (space mission)
Planetary defence spacecraft developed by the ESA
Hera is the first planetary defence spacecraft developed by the European Space Agency (ESA). Its primary mission objective is to study the Didymos binary asteroid system that was impacted in 2022 by NASA's DART spacecraft and contribute to validation of the kinetic impact method to deviate a near-Earth asteroid from a colliding trajectory with Earth.
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Facts
- What it is
- Space probe
- Agency
- ESA
- Launched
- October 7, 2024
- Rocket
- Falcon 9
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SLC-40
- International designator
- 2024-180A