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Europe’s Hera Mission Launches to Visit an Asteroid Smacked by NASA

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NASA Space Technology October 8, 20243 min readHera will arrive in 2026 at Dimorphos, an asteroid deliberately struck by NASA’s DART spacecraftBy Elizabeth Howell & SPACE.comESA’s Hera mission lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, USA, on 7 October at 10:52 local time. ESA - S. CorvajaA unique asteroid mission is underway.The European Space Agency's Hera mission launched today (Oct. 7) at 10:52 a.m. EDT (1452 GMT), riding a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in coastal Florida.ESA's Hera spacecraft soared into a cloudy sky above Florida to begin a multimillion-mile trek across the solar system to the binary asteroid system Didymos, which became famous in September 2022 after NASA smacked its DART (Double Asteroid Redirect Mission) into Didymos' smaller companion, Dimorphos. That...
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Hera mission set to revisit asteroid after NASA’s redirection test
06 Oct
Science & Technology

Hera mission set to revisit asteroid after NASA’s redirection test

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NASA Space Technology The European Space Agency’s Hera mission will study the asteroids Dimorphos aided by two CubeSats called Juventas and MilaniESA/ScienceOffice.orgTwo years after a NASA spacecraft slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos, another mission to map the space rock is about to launch. The data it collects will refine Earth’s planetary defences against asteroid threats, say researchers.In 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft collided with the asteroid Dimorphos at 6.6 kilometres per second as it orbited its parent asteroid Didymos. The mission was an attempt to show that bodies on a collision course with our planet could be redirected, and subsequent observations from Earth showed that it had successfully changed...
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On a mission to fix health care, Jane Philpott is open to a return to politics
25 Aug
Politics

On a mission to fix health care, Jane Philpott is open to a return to politics

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Politics tamfitronics PoliticsFormer Liberal cabinet minister Jane Philpott says that, should the right circumstances arise, she would consider returning to politics to focus on fixing primary health care in Canada.Philpott and Jody Wilson-Raybould were expelled from the Liberal caucus in 2019Dr. Jane Philpott says that, given the right circumstances, she would consider returning to politics. (Submitted by Jane Philpott)More than five years after she was expelled from caucus in the fallout from the SNC-Lavalin affair, former Liberal health minister Jane Philpott is leaving the door open to a possible return to politics.Philpott was asked about her future in an interview airing Saturday on CBC's The House."If a door ever opened that was the right one, that would allow me to go back into a political role, I would certainly consider it," she told host Catherine Cullen.In the interview —...
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Long-term moon mission safety depends on sturdy infrastructure
08 Aug
Top Stories

Long-term moon mission safety depends on sturdy infrastructure

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Top Stories Tamfitronics GOLDEN, Colorado — A future where the moon serves as a long-term haven for human explorers is within reach but significant challenges like constructing launch and landing facilities, addressing moonquakes, and developing sustainable infrastructure must be overcome.The Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium held a launch and landing facilities workshop on July 23, staged by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland. Specialists from NASA, industry and academia took part, all with an eye toward orchestrating an enduring human presence on the lunar landscape.“Landings and launches are incredibly complex endeavors, and an inflection point in any lunar surface exploration activity,” APL’s Sarah Hasnain, the consortium’s co-lead on lunar excavation and construction, told SpaceNews. “Our sustainable future on the moon starts with the ability to revisit sites and reuse infrastructure and assets...
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