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Hera is a spacecraft developed by the European Space Agency for its space safety program. Its primary mission objective is to study the Didymos binary asteroid system that was impacted four years earlier by the NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft and contribute to validation of the kinetic impact method to deviate a near-Earth asteroid from a colliding trajectory with Earth.
Psyche (/ ˈ s aɪ k i / SY-kee) is a NASA Discovery Program space mission launched on October 13, 2023, to explore the origin of planetary cores by orbiting and studying the metallic asteroid 16 Psyche beginning in 2029. [8]
Hyper-velocity Asteroid Mitigation Mission for Emergency Response (HAMMER) is a concept study by NASA on a spacecraft (8 tonnes) capable of detonating a nuclear bomb to deflect an asteroid, if it was on a collision course to Earth.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket climbs away from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Oct. 7, 2024, boosting the European Space Agency's Hera probe toward deep space to explore the asteroid Didymos ...
Asteroid orbiter: In orbit: En route ⚀ Juventas [163] ESA: Heliocentric: Asteroid probe: In orbit: Awaiting deployment ⚀ Milani [164] ESA: Heliocentric: Asteroid probe: In orbit: Awaiting deployment Falcon 9 First Stage Booster (B1061) is expended in this mission. 10 October 13:50 [118] [165] Long March 3B/E: 3B-Y99 Xichang LC-2 CASC ...
Lucy was launched from Cape Canaveral SLC-41 on 16 October 2021, at 09:34 UTC [3] on the 401 variant of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch vehicle. It gained one gravity assist from Earth a year later on 16 October 2022, [12] and after making a flyby of the asteroid 152830 Dinkinesh in 2023, [13] it will gain another gravity assist from Earth in 2024. [14]
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was a NASA space mission aimed at testing a method of planetary defense against near-Earth objects (NEOs). [4] [5] It was designed to assess how much a spacecraft impact deflects an asteroid through its transfer of momentum when hitting the asteroid head-on. [6]
ASTER is a planned space mission under development by the Brazilian Space Agency that will launch a spacecraft to orbit a near-Earth object known as (153591) 2001 SN 263, a triple asteroid system.