Trajectory & orbital insertion
Ascent path is a representation — true ascent telemetry isn’t public.
Provider
SpaceX
Provider type
Commercial
Orbit
Asteroid
Mission type
Robotic Exploration
Launch site
United States of America
Date
Mon, 07 Oct 2024 14:52:11 GMT
Orbital launch #
#6773 ever
Go probability
60%
Weather
Thick Cloud Layers Rule, Cumulus Cloud Rule
Mission
Hera is a space mission in development at the European Space Agency in its Space Safety program. Its primary objective is to study the Didymos binary asteroid system that was impacted by DART and contribute to validation of the kinetic impact method to deviate a near-Earth asteroid in a colliding trajectory with Earth. It will measure the size and the morphology of the crater created by and momentum transferred by an artificial projectile impacting an asteroid, which will allow measuring the efficiency of the deflection produced by the impact. It will also analyze the expanding debris cloud caused by the impact.