LA PLATA, Maryland — Europe’s Hera asteroid deflection-assessment mission, successfully launched Oct. 7 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, will spend two years traveling to asteroid Dimorphos to examine in detail the effect’s of NASA’s Dart satellite, which in 2022 intentionally crashed into Dimorphos to modify its trajectory.
NASA’s mission was judged successful beyond expectations. Now comes Hera, equipped with a subsurface radar sensor and including two cubesats to be sent to examine Dimorphos more closely.
The three satellites . . .
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