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Mission Elapsed Time
T-00:00:00
Booster History
B1061
Flight #23
Flight #23 · Last flown 2024-08-12
- Total Flights
- 23
- Recovery Rate
- 22/22 successful landings
- This Landing
- No landing attempt (expended)· Expended
- Recovery Site
- Atlantic Ocean (ATL)
- Last Flight
- Falcon 9 Block 5 | Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission (ASBM) · 56-day turnaround
Landing Record
22 successful · 0 failed · 22 total
Mission Details
Hera is a space mission in development at the European Space Agency in its Space Safety program. Its primary objective is to study the Didymos binary asteroid system that was impacted by DART and contribute to validation of the kinetic impact method to deviate a near-Earth asteroid in a colliding trajectory with Earth. It will measure the size and the morphology of the crater created by and momentum transferred by an artificial projectile impacting an asteroid, which will allow measuring the efficiency of the deflection produced by the impact. It will also analyze the expanding debris cloud caused by the impact.
- Type
- Robotic Exploration
- Orbit
- Asteroid
Launch Site
- Pad
- Space Launch Complex 40
- Location
- Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Country
- 🇺🇸 USA