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Heli Greus, Hera Product Assurance and Safety Manager at ESA, presents Hera and its instruments before the spacecraft left the Agency\u2019s technical heart in the Netherlands. Her contribution to the mission is to make sure that whatever goes insite Hera will survive the space environment. To her, the biggest challenge was combining Hera with the CubeSats Juventas and Milani, which follow industrial rules and a \u2018NewSpace\u2019 approach.<\/p>\n
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Hera is ESA’s first planetary defence mission, heading to a unique target among the 1.3 million known asteroids of our Solar System. On 26 September 2022 NASA\u2019s DART mission performed humankind\u2019s first test of asteroid deflection by crashing into the Great-Pyramid-sized Dimorphos moonlet. The result was a shift in its orbit around the mountain-sized Didymos main asteroid.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Now comes ESA\u2019s own contribution to this international collaboration: the Hera mission will revisit Dimorphos to gather vital close-up data about the deflected body.<\/p>\n
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