hera dimorphos asteroid mission

[ad_1] After NASA smashes a car-sized spacecraft into an asteroid next week, it will be up to the ESA's Hera mission to probe “crime scene”. After NASA deliberately smashes a car-sized spacecraft into an asteroid next week, it will be up to the European Space Agency's Hera mission to investigate the "crime scene" and uncover the secrets of these potentially devastating space rocks.NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) aims to collide with the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos on Monday night, hoping to slightly alter its trajectory -- the first time such an operation has been attempted. While Dimorphos is 11 million kilometres (6.8 million miles) away and poses no threat to Earth, the mission is a test run in case the world...

[ad_1] ESA's Hera spacecraft will observe the aftermath of the collission of the DART mission spacecraft with the asteroid Dimorphos. NASA's $240 million DART Mission spacecraft is all set to collide with its target asteroid Dimorphos on September 26. The mission was launched in November last year with the aim to smash a spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos and to deflect it away from its path. Although this asteroid is non-threatening for Earth, the NASA asteroid mission aims to carry out an experiment to gain greater knowledge as to what will happen if a craft is crashed against a space rock. In yet another amazing revelation, the European Space Agency (ESA) has a follow-up mission to NASA's DART Mission in the works. ...

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After NASA asteroid collision, Hera will probe ‘crime scene’

Awesome! After DART spacecraft crashes into asteroid, ESA’s Hera to check effect of impact