ESA's Hera Mission Targets Binary Asteroid Pair in November

ESA's Hera Mission Targets Binary Asteroid Pair in November

In just one more month, the European Space Agency’s Hera mission will make history. Moving at 12 kilometers per second versus Earth, the mission is about to rendezvous with the binary Dimorphos-Didymos asteroid pair. NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission slammed into Dimorphos in 2022, and now Hera will provide a follow up view of the mission’s resulting handiwork. The European Space Agency (ESA) recently released a thought-prov…

Hera Spots Didymos for the First Time, But It Is Smaller Than a Pixel

ESA’s Hera spacecraft has photographed its destination for the first time, picking out the Didymos asteroid system against a background of stars. The image, captured...