Hera (space mission)
The drawing shows an idea, about Hera in orbit around the asteroid Didymos | |||||||||||||
| Mission type | Didymos orbiter | ||||||||||||
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| Operator | European Space Agency | ||||||||||||
| COSPAR ID | 2024-180A | ||||||||||||
| SATCAT no. | 61449 | ||||||||||||
| Website | heramission | ||||||||||||
| Mission duration | Planned (science phase): 6 months | ||||||||||||
| Spacecraft properties | |||||||||||||
| Manufacturer | OHB SE | ||||||||||||
| Launch mass | 1,128 kg (2,487 lb) | ||||||||||||
| Dry mass | 350 kg (770 lb) | ||||||||||||
| Dimensions | 1.6 × 1.6 × 1.7 m (5.2 × 5.2 × 5.6 ft) | ||||||||||||
| Start of mission | |||||||||||||
| Launch date | 7 October 2024, 14:52 UTC[1][2] (planned) | ||||||||||||
| Rocket | Falcon 9 Block 5 | ||||||||||||
| Launch site | Cape Canaveral, SLC‑40 | ||||||||||||
| Contractor | SpaceX | ||||||||||||
| Flyby of Mars | |||||||||||||
| Closest approach | March 2025[3] | ||||||||||||
| Distance | 5,000–8,000 km (3,100–5,000 mi) | ||||||||||||
| 65803 Didymos orbiter | |||||||||||||
| Orbital insertion | 14 December 2026[3] | ||||||||||||
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Hera is a spacecraft that has been made for the European Space Agency and its Space Safety program. It's mission objective is to study the Didymos binary asteroid system that was collided by NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft four years before Hera.
It was launched on October 7, 2024[4] by SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket
Sources
- ↑ "Hera". ESA. September 2022. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
- ↑ "Falcon 9 (Block 5) | Hera". NextSpaceflight.com. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Hera". nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. NASA. Archived from the original on 26 September 2020. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
- ↑ https://yle.fi/a/74-20115406. Retrieved 2024-10-07