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Hera's first images (Thermal Infrared Imager)

Visitors watch the Hera launch at ESA's ESOC control centre in Germany

Learning about asteroids and planetary defence

The Hera AI space companion

Hera fires its thrusters

Hera launch animation still

Hera Science Team

Nearing Hera era in space

View from Hera’s Asteroid Deck

Hera Asteroid Deck and instruments

Hera and its CubeSats connected by inter-satellite links

ESA missions to small bodies

Close approach of asteroid 2024 ON

Hera CubeSats’ touchdown

Asteroid 2024 RW1 predicted impact trajectory

Asteroid 2024 RW1 orbit prior to Earth impact

ESA’s final observations of asteroid 2024 RW1

The reentry science team at Sydney airport, ready to observe the first Cluster reentry in 2024

Hera loaded on Antonov cargo aircraft for flight to USA

Mercury: Lord of the (peak) Rings (annotated)

Hera departs ESA test centre

Hera and CubeSat patches on the spacecraft shipping container

Hera transported overnight to Cologne

ESA Space Environment 2024 figure 1

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ESA's Ramses mission at the asteroid Apophis

ESA's Ramses mission to asteroid Apophis

Hera in the doghouse

Hera's control team visits the spacecraft inside its cleanroom

Contract signature for the development of zero-debris LEO satellite platforms

Asteroid 2024 MK flies past Earth

Asteroid (415029) 2011 UL21 flies past Earth

Synodic orbit visualisation of asteroid (415029) 2011 UL21

Close approach of asteroid (415029) 2011 UL21

ILA 2024 - New signatories to the Zero Debris Charter

Twelve nations sign the Zero Debris Charter

Airbus is the prime contractor for ESA's Vigil spacecraft

Aurora near Frankfurt, Germany, May 2024

Hera plus one: enter the CubeSat

Planetary defenders assemble!

Close approach of asteroid 2013 NK4

Asteroid Apophis

Hera scans DART’s impact crater

Hera, her CubeSats, and their rocky target

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