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Hera mission set to revisit asteroid

Hera mission headed to asteroid as part of planetary defense test to launch Monday

Liftoff of the ESA/NASA Hera mission is set for Monday, sending a spacecraft on a two year journey to a familiar asteroid system.

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Hera mission set to revisit asteroid after NASA's redirection test

The European Space Agency is sending a probe to get a closer look at the asteroid Dimorphos, which had its orbit altered by NASA’s DART mission in 2022

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ESA's Hera spacecraft set for asteroid 'crime scene investigation'

Europe's Hera probe is tentatively scheduled to launch Monday on a mission to inspect the damage a NASA spacecraft made when it smashed into an asteroid during the first test of Earth's planetary defenses.

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ESA’s ‘planetary defence mission’ has startups dreaming of asteroid mining

The Hera mission will explore an asteroid deflection test. It also gives startups a chance to refine their technologies.

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ESA Set to Launch Hera Mission, the First Planetary Defense Endeavor of Its Kind

Space is a pretty wild place with asteroids, rogue planets and possibly even aliens species being a threat to humanity. Now a new mission by the ESA is about to launch, heading into space to inspect the Dimorphos and Didymos asteroid pair to better understand how we might redirect it if it was coming our way.

SpaceX will launch Europe's Hera asteroid probe on Oct. 7

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FAA gives SpaceX the OK to launch just 1 Falcon 9 on asteroid mission for Europe

The Federal Aviation Administration on Sunday announced it was approving just one SpaceX Falcon 9 mission, although SpaceX has submitted its mishap report into why the second stage from last

Space.com · 4h

SpaceX will launch Europe's Hera asteroid probe on Oct. 7: Watch it live

SpaceX will launch Europe's Hera spacecraft toward the asteroid Dimorphos for a post-impact evaluation on Monday (Oct. 7), and you can watch the liftoff live.

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FAA authorizes Oct 7 flight for SpaceX Falcon 9 vehicle

The SpaceX Falcon 9 vehicle is authorized to return to flight for a planned mission scheduled to launch on Oct. 7 from a station in Florida, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said on Sunday. "The SpaceX Falcon 9 vehicle is authorized to return to flight only for the planned Hera mission scheduled to launch on Oct.

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When a massive asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, ants began farming fungi

New research shows that ants have been farming fungi for 66 million years — thanks in part to the asteroid that fueled the demise of the dinosaurs.

ZME Science on MSN · 2d

Did two asteroids wipe out the dinosaurs? New massive crater on Atlantic seafloor suggests a deadly double impact

For decades, the story of the dinosaurs’ demise has centered on a single event: an asteroid smashing into the Earth, creating the Chicxulub crater off the coast of Mexico. The massive impact unleashed chaos across the planet,

Metro on MSN · 2d

There was more than one asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs, scientists say

The crater left from the second asteroid's impact has been dubbed the Nadir crater, and it was first discovered in 2022.

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A spaceship punched an asteroid — we’re about to learn what came next

ESA’s Hera mission will study a rock called Dimorphos, which was blasted by NASA, to work out how successful that approach ...

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Is Earth destined for another extinction-level asteroid event? | The Excerpt

Robin George Andrews, author of "How to Kill an Asteroid," joins The Excerpt to discuss how scientists are working to ...

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Investigating the possibility of using asteroid material to grow edible biomass for astronauts

A team of engineers and planetary scientists at Western University's Institute for Earth and Space Exploration, in Canada, ...

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Meet SpaceHopper, a three-legged hopping asteroid explorer

The bouncy bot was designed by university students in Switzerland for exploring microgravity environments, such as asteroids.

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An asteroid known as a 'mini-moon' will join Earth's orbit for 2 months starting Sunday

A small asteroid will join Earth's orbit around the sun for two months beginning Sunday, becoming a 'mini-moon.' ...

Asteroid alert by NASA! Two giant airplane-sized asteroids are approaching Earth at a frightening speed today

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is monitoring two asteroids, 2022 FC5 and 2022 SU21, both expected to pass near Earth ...

Asteroid Apophis' path near Earth in 2029 offers rare lessons in defending planet

Apophis will travel closer to us than any similarly sized astronomical object in recorded history, scientists said. It will ...

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Was Bruce Willis right? Could a nuclear blast save us from killer asteroid?

Scientists simulated a nuclear explosion using x-ray pulses to push an asteroid-like rock away in space-like conditions.

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