The spacecraft captured the Red Planet and its enigmatic moons, Deimos and Phobos, marking its first deep-space imaging ...

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Deimos is the smaller and less photographed of Mars’ moons. This egg-shaped object, only measuring about 7.7 miles in diameter (12.4 kilometers), is tidally-locked with the Red Planet making it often ...

ISAE-SUPAERO is actively collaborating in the international Hera probe program through the research work of Naomi Murdoch and the SSPA team. The probe, which is en route to study the asteroid ...

“We’re on track to the asteroid system.” Hera is headed to Dimorphos as a follow ... aiming to change its orbit around a larger asteroid, Didymos. That was a test of whether a dangerous space rock ...

ESA’s Hera mission is two-year flight to the Didymos binary asteroid system. See its trajectory here. Credit: ESA - European Space Agency Judge blocks President Trump from using 1798 Alien Enemies Act ...

Deimos appears to cross Mars ESA / JAXA / ESA Standard Licence Hera is scheduled to reach the Didymos system in December 2026. It remains to be seen what further information the mission will glean ...

Space probe Hera passed Mars while on its way to the Didymos asteroid system as part of planetary defence mission. #EuropeNews ...

The main objective of the flyby was to put Hera on the correct trajectory towards the Didymos asteroid system. The trajectory of the mission did not initially incorporate the flyby past the two ...

On 12 March 2025, the Hera spacecraft used Mars's gravity to accelerate its journey to the Didymos/Dimorphos binary asteroid system. The probe's camera system, developed and built in Germany, captured ...

The spacecraft is scheduled for a follow-up maneuver in February 2026, followed by a series of thruster firings starting in October 2026 to fine-tune its trajectory to reach the Didymos system in ...