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ESA's Hera mission

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ESA's Hera mission

@ESA_Hera

Part of the first test of asteroid deflection. Launched 7 October 2024 on a mission to the binary asteroid system Didymos. #HeraMission #PlanetaryDefence

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ESA's Hera mission
@ESA_Hera
Jun 9
🛰️I'm currently speeding my way thru deep space to the Dimorphos🪨asteroid, the only Solar System body whose orbit has been shifted by human action - when NASA's DART spacecraft💥impacted it - to check what happened to it next! See where I am right now: whereis.space/hera/
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@ESA_Hera
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It's hot outside, and the 1-km-scale asteroid (152637) 1997 NC1 flies by at lunchtime. Why not stay in and follow the Asteroid Day Festival, live from Luxembourg? Bringing together astronauts, asteroid experts and space mission engineers, the action starts at 10 am:
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ESA Operations
@esaoperations
Jun 25
Asteroid (152637) 1997 NC1 flies past Earth on Saturday – great advertising for this weekend’s Asteroid Day festival! After a Friday evening astronomy session, Saturday's event includes astronauts, asteroid experts and engineers. Watch it live here:
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@ESA_Hera
Jun 25
The backbone of ESA's Ramses asteroid mission is now standing tall in its Bremen cleanroom. From here on in the mission is being developed in two halves in parallel, to ensure its reaches its spring 2028 launch deadline: esa.int/Space_Safety/P…
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ESA Operations
@esaoperations
Jun 24
🪨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…
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NASA Solar System
@NASASolarSystem
Jun 18
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:
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ESA Operations
@esaoperations
Jun 19
Get up to speed in space with ESA Impact, our online summary of Europe's last three months of space activity: esa.int/About_Us/ESA_P…
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ESA's Hera mission
@ESA_Hera
Jun 18
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…
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ESA Operations
@esaoperations
Jun 17
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...
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地球接近小惑星アポフィス探査計画RAMSES
@JAXA_RAMSES
Jun 11
6月11日、#COPUOS2026 にてサイドイベント “Planetary Defence in Action: Global Cooperation on #RAMSES”を開催しました！
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ESA's Hera mission
@ESA_Hera
Jun 10
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
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ESA Operations
@esaoperations
Jun 1
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…
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ESA's Hera mission
@ESA_Hera
May 29
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…
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