Professor Alan Fitzsimmons, from Queen’s University Belfast, has recently returned from ground control of ESA’s Hera mission.

A Belfast-based astronomer has said a planetary defence mission with which he is involved will help scientists gather new ...

has recently returned from ground control of the European Space Agency (ESA) Hera mission at the European Space Operations ...

BepiColombo, a joint mission by ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA, will make its sixth flyby of Mercury in January 2025. This maneuver will help the spacecraft enter orbit around ...

The ESA's Hera mission will also perform a flyby of Mars in March 2025. Hera is part of the Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment mission, which plans to study the Didymos binary asteroid system.

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. ESA's Hera spacecraft as it would look in space. Dimorphos is a small moonlet ...

The Hera mission has been described by ESA scientists as a "crash scene investigation," with the mission's principal investigator Patrick Michel telling CNN that "Hera will close the loop by ...

Asteroid-detecting AI algorithms have already identified 27,000 new pieces of space debris, bringing the known number to 1.3 ...

The controlled impact of NASA's DART spacecraft on 26 September 2022 brought the asteroid moon closer to Didymos, shortening the moonlet’s orbital period by 32 minutes to 11 hours 23 minutes. The Hera ...

which was impacted by NASA’s DART spacecraft in 2022, Hera will help turn asteroid deflection into a well understood and potentially repeatable technique," ESA explained. To prepare for all ...

Data from the two cubesats is received by the Hera Missions Operations Centre at ESA's European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Germany, and at the Cubesat Mission Operation Centre (CMOC ...

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