Part of the first test of asteroid deflection. Launched 7 October 2024 on a mission to the binary asteroid system Didymos.
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🪨Asteroid (152637) 1997 NC1, as monitored by ESA's Planetary Defence team, makes a close approach to Earth this Saturday that could be visible with small telescopes 🔭 esa.int/ESA_Multimedia…
This asteroid is a little… quirky.
Shaped like a five-mile-long peanut 🥜
Wobbles like a top 🌪️
Encountered water, but lost it 💦
Published today, NASA’s Lucy mission reveals close-up imagery and data from its flyby of oddball asteroid Donaldjohanson.
More: go.nasa.gov/3Qx5F3Y
Programme now available for next week's International Asteroid Day festival on 26-27 June! Join us at Cercle Cité, Luxembourg, or if you can't make it in person, most talks will be streamed live on the Asteroid Day YouTube channel: asteroidday.org/events-in-luxe…
Asteroid Apophis will fly by Earth on Friday 13 April 2029. People have nothing to worry about, but scientists are excited! A workshop in Padua this week discussed ESA's Ramses mission, which will fly with the asteroid to see what Earth's gravity does to it... ramsesmission.space/workshop-2026
At tomorrow's @UNOOSA Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space in Vienna, representatives of @JAXA_en, @ASI_spazio and @esa come together for a breakfast panel to present Hera's sister mission Ramses
Saturday’s sonic boom heard over Boston was due to an airbursting meteor, as confirmed by US weather satellite GOES-19. A European geostationary weather sat performs a comparable skywatch, read more here: esa.int/Space_Safety/F…
Everything you wanted to know about asteroids but were afraid to ask... ! Hera Principal Investigator Patrick Michel has a new book out on planetary defence & asteroids - in 🇫🇷 - odilejacob.fr/catalogue/scie…
Congratulations to @NASA's @MissionToPsyche for their spectacular Mars flyby. The images brought back memories of our visit last year - asteroid missions like Mars; its gravity comes in handy for modifying course! esa.int/Space_Safety/H…
The international #HeraMission science community is meeting at Thessaloniki 🇬🇷 this week, preparing for Hera's arrival in 6 months time to the Dimorphos asteroid orbiting the larger Didymos, to see how it was transformed by the impact of @NASA's spacecraft back in 2022
Hera is part of ESA's Space Safety programme, protecting our planet, people & infrastructure from space hazards.
🚨Last call! 🚨On 16 June our Space Safety Industry Day at #ESTEC in 🇳🇱 shares how European industry can partner in our work - come join us! 👉 indico.esa.int/event/646/over…
A successful deep-space manoeuvre has put ESA’s Hera spacecraft on course for arrival at the Didymos binary asteroid system later this year!
At Didymos, Hera will help turn asteroid deflection into a reliable technique for protecting Earth 🛡️🌍
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Surprising new study on @NASA's DART mission collision in 2022: not only did it change the orbit of the smaller Dimorphos asteroid, but it also shifted the solar orbit of its parent body Didymos. Hera's arrival this autumn will reveal more: nasa.gov/missions/dart/…
#ESAhighlights 2025 is out now. 👀
Read our free ESA Highlights magazine, summarising a complete year of space activity in impactful images and in-depth articles. 📅
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