Hera’s traveling companions are Milani and Juventas and they are both about the size of a shoebox. These CubeSats, nanosatellites, have their own important missions.

The Hera AI Companion will be answering questions from space fans during the flyby and is expected to be able to share photos in close to real time. The Companion is constantly being updated with the ...

Sabato 28 giugno, concerto del Trio Murr al Liceo musicale Orfeo Stillo per la 45ª stagione concertistica ‘L’Hera della Magna Grecia'.

A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of Mars and its moon Deimos ...

Un’opportunità straordinaria per gli studiosi del Politecnico che per circa 90 giorni saranno in contatto con Milani tramite Hera grazie al primo collegamento intersatellitare nello spazio, un ...

LECCO – Il 7 ottobre 2024 è stata lanciata con successo la sonda Hera dell’Agenzia Spaziale Europea (ESA), diretta verso l’asteroide Dimorphos, che verrà raggiunto nel dicembre 2026. La ...

Now, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Hera mission, which launched on Oct. 7, is on its way to check out the damage and learn more about the Didymos-Dimorphos system. Riding with Hera are two small ...

Milani, which will prospect for minerals on the asteroid's surface to help determine its composition, was activated on Oct. 24, by which time Hera was 4.9 million miles (7.9 million km) distant ...

Asteroid impacts on Earth are a very rare natural disaster, but they can have serious consequences. It is therefore important to be equipped to deal with potentially dangerous asteroids. The Hera ...

Traveling at an impressive speed of 6 km/s (~3.7 mi/s), Hera is heading toward this unique asteroid, the first to have undergone deflection by human intervention. This historic moment for space ...

The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft is on its way to check out the damage NASA’s DART mission did to an asteroid called Dimorphos. Hera launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape ...

The $398 million (363 million Euro) Hera spacecraft, accompanied by two smaller cubesats called named Milani and Juventas, is scheduled to arrive at Dimorphos in late 2026 to look at DART's work ...