Hera, the Europe's ESA space mission to study a rogue asteroid that was deflected by NASA, kicks off in early October 2024.

A spacecraft blasted off Monday to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash. The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft ...

The nearly $400 million (363 million euro) Hera mission, named for the Greek goddess of marriage, will investigate the aftermath of a cosmic collision between NASA's DART spacecraft and the ...

The launch window for Hera, named after the Greek goddess of marriage, will open on Monday, October 7, 2024 at 10:52 am EDT. It will be launched into interplanetary transfer orbit atop a SpaceX ...

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hera mission, which is traveling to asteroid Didymos and its moon Dimorphos as a follow-up to NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission ...

The European Space Agency’s Hera mission lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 10:52 a.m. ET on Monday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The launch marks the first Falcon 9 ...

The rocket deployed the Hera spacecraft for the European Space Agency about 76 minutes later, after two burns of the upper stage to place the spacecraft on an interplanetary trajectory.

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — SpaceX has launched the European Space Agency’s Hera asteroid mission on Monday morning, which will follow up on a NASA mission two years ago when it ...

the small car-sized Hera will need to swing past Mars in 2025 for a gravity boost, before arriving at Dimorphos by the end of 2026. It's a moonlet of Didymos, Greek for twin, a fast-spinning ...

Hera, an orbiter built by the European Space Agency, launched at 10:52 a.m. ET Monday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Ahead of the small craft is a two-year journey to ...

PARIS, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Europe's Hera asteroid probe blasted off from Florida on a SpaceX rocket on Monday, beginning a two-year voyage to revisit an asteroid bashed off course by NASA's DART ...