Thursday, November 14, 2024

Cubesats on Europe’s Hera asteroid mission phone home after Oct. 7 launch

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Two European cubesats have communicated that they are a-ok as they hurtle toward a binary asteroid system to check out the damage inflicted by NASA’s DART impactor in 2022.

DART, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, proved to be an unqualified success when it slammed into the 560-foot-wide (170 meters) asteroid Dimorphos, altering its orbit around the larger space rock Didymos and proving for the first time that humans have the ability to nudge potentially hazardous asteroids out of the way. 



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