The European Space Agency is running some final tests ahead of launching its Hera mission this October, which aims to investigate the results of NASA’s DART mission.
The European Space Agency is running some of the final tests required to launch its Hera mission this October, which aims to investigate the asteroid that NASA intentionally slammed a spacecraft into back in 2022. The goal is to gather more accurate information about the collision to help develop systems that can protect our planet by deflecting asteroids that head our way.
Even for a space mission, the nature of the paired asteroid system — which has a combined gravity field tens of thousands of times weaker than Earth — makes it a difficult destination to navigate. The collision with NASA’s DART spacecraft has also shifted the orbit around Didymos and likely made some major changes to its overall shape.
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