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 Canaveral on Monday, just days ahead of Hurricane Milton. While the monster hurricane sweeps across the middle of Florida, Hera will be beginning a two-year journey past Mars and out to the asteroid belt. The mission’s goal is to help us understand how to prevent a different kind of natural disaster: an asteroid impact.
