The ESA Hera Mission: Detailed Characterization of the DART Impact Outcome and of the Binary Asteroid (65803) Didymos

Michel, Patrick; Küppers, M.; Campo Bagatín, Adriano; Carry, B.; Charnoz, S.; de León, J.; Fitzsimmons, A.; Gordo, Paulo; Green, Simon; Hèrique, Alain; Juzi, Martin; Karatekin, Özgür; Kohout, T.; Lazzarin, M.; Murdoch, Naomi; Okada, Tatsuaki; Palomba, E.; Pravec, Petr; Snodgrass, C.; Tortora, Paolo; Tsiganis, K.; Ulamec, Stephan; Vincent, Jean‐Baptiste; Wünnemann, K.; Zhang, Yun; D. Raducan, Sabina; Dotto, E.; L. Chabot, N.; Cheng, Andy; S. Rivkin, A.; S. Barnouin, O.; M. Ernst, C.; M. Stickle, A.; C. Richardson, D.; A. Thomas, Cristina; Arakawa, Masahiko; Miyamoto, Hirdy; Nakamura, A.; Sugita, Seiji; Yoshikawa, Makoto; Abell, Paul; Asphaug, Erik; Ballouz, Ronald‐Louis; F. Bottke, W.; S. Lauretta, D.; J. Walsh, K.; Di Martino, Paolo; Carnelli, Ian

doi:10.3847/psj/ac6f52

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The ESA Hera Mission: Detailed Characterization of the DART Impact Outcome and of the Binary Asteroid (65803) Didymos

Published in The Planetary Science Journal • Jul 1, 2022

Authors:

Patrick Michel

M. Küppers

Adriano Campo Bagatín

Abstract

Abstract Hera is a planetary defense mission under development in the Space Safety and Security Program of the European Space Agency for launch in 2024 October. It will rendezvous in late 2026 December with the binary asteroid (65803) Didymos and in particular its moon, Dimorphos, which will be impa...

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Asteroid

Rendezvous

Spacecraft

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