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Hera at Dimorphos

Europe and US teaming up for asteroid deflection

02/09/2019 30476 views 162 likes

Asteroid '2019 OK' observed moving against backdrop of stars

Asteroid's surprise close approach illustrates need for mor…

02/08/2019 22965 views 180 likes

Lutetia

ESA confirms asteroid will miss Earth in 2019

16/07/2019 32833 views 160 likes

CubeSat approaching asteroid

When CubeSats meet asteroid

28/06/2019 6261 views 78 likes

DART impacting asteroid

Will DART make its target asteroid go wobbly? Hera will see

27/06/2019 3315 views 54 likes

Asteroid Ryugu

ESA marks Asteroid Day on 30 June

24/06/2019 5793 views 57 likes

Hera surveying Dimorphos

Hera asteroid mission’s brain to be radiation-hard and fail…

11/06/2019 4921 views 65 likes

Side by side observation and artist's impression of Asteroid 1999 KW4

Binary asteroids, key to Earth’s planetary defence

04/06/2019 6335 views 56 likes

Hera gets its own logo

03/05/2019 2529 views 15 likes

APEX CubeSat

Hera’s APEX CubeSat will reveal the stuff that asteroids ar…

02/05/2019 6603 views 68 likes

Juventas CubeSat

Hera’s CubeSat to perform first radar probe of an asteroid

01/05/2019 9223 views 87 likes

The day the asteroid might hit

26/04/2019 36282 views 150 likes

SCI impactor on way to Ryugu asteroid

Earth vs. asteroids: humans strike back

22/04/2019 12342 views 148 likes

Infrared imaging of the impact crater

Self-driving spacecraft set for planetary defence expedition

05/04/2019 6177 views 63 likes

Bright spots on Ceres

ESA’s Hera asteroid mission borrows eyes of NASA’s Dawn

18/03/2019 7380 views 96 likes

Hera at Didymos

ESA plans mission to smallest asteroid ever visited

04/02/2019 15218 views 130 likes

ESA Columbus module

Hundreds of impacts crater ESA’s Columbus science laboratory

23/01/2019 7603 views 94 likes

Hera networking with CubeSats

CubeSats joining Hera mission to asteroid system

07/01/2019 12761 views 117 likes

Lunar impact Gif

Learning from lunar lights

07/12/2018 9913 views 150 likes

Hera validates crater formation models

Berlin museum hosts meeting on Europe’s next asteroid missi…

13/11/2018 1902 views 32 likes

Hera measures Didymoon's size, shape and mass

Earth’s first missions to a binary asteroid, for planetary …

25/06/2018 12878 views 153 likes

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