US EditionHera Aces A Massive Engine Burn On Its Way To Didymos
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Hera Aces A Massive Engine Burn On Its Way To Didymos
In September 2022, humanity crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid - on purpose. The objective of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was to see if we could intentionally modify the orbit of Dimorphos, the small moonlet orbiting the larger asteroid Didymos. According to all accounts, the mission worked spectacularly, but it was a one-way trip, so our ability to see what happened to the binary asteroid system has so far been limited to …
The European Space Agency (ESA) recently announced the successful completion of the Hera spacecraft's most significant orbital maneuver on its journey to the Didymos binary asteroid system. This mission is the long-awaited follow-up to NASA's DART experiment, which in September 2022 demonstrated humanity's ability to intentionally alter the orbit of a celestial body by colliding a spacecraft with Dimorphos, the moon of the asteroid Didymos. Beca…
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