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ESA's Hera lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on 7 October 2024. It is on course for its rendezvous with the Didymos binary asteroid system, whose smaller body is Dimorphos.
- Launch vehicle
- SpaceX Falcon 9
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, USA
- Countries
- Germany, Italy, Luxembourg
- Mission types
- Technology demonstrator
Chronology
Mission timeline
Milestone
Completed its second deep-space manoeuvre
Mission architecture
Vehicles
Trajectory record
Trajectory dataset not yet available
No verified trajectory dataset is committed for this mission, so Mission Atlas renders no path.
Provenance
Sources
Each source is listed once and labeled with the mission, event, trajectory, or destination/body context it supports.
Data verified through September 4, 2026
- Planetary defence mission Hera heading for deflected asteroid - ESA — ESAMission page · Supports: mission claims · destination/body context · event claims
- Hera on course for asteroid rendezvous - ESA — ESAMission page · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- Hera's CubeSats - ESA — ESAMission page · Supports: mission claims
- Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) - NASA Science — NASAMission page · Supports: destination/body context
- Planet Sizes and Locations in Our Solar System — NASAOther · Supports: destination/body context