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DOI: Laboratoire Lagrange||European Space Astronomy Centre||Universidad de Alicante||Laboratoire Lagrange||CNRS||University of La Laguna||Queen’s University Belfast||Universidade de Lisboa||Open University||Univ. Grenoble Alpes CNRS CNES IPAG||University of Bern||Royal Observatory of Belgium||Czech Academy of Sciences||Department of Physics and Astronomy||Space Systems for Planetary Applications||Institute of Space and Astronautical Science||Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali-INAF||Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences||Royal Observatory||Department of Industrial Engineering||Aristotle University of Thessaloniki||RB-MUSC||DLR Institute of Planetary Research||Leibniz-Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science||University of Maryland||University of Bern||INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma||JHU/APL||JHU/APL||JHU/APL||JHU/APL||JHU/APL||JHU/APL||University of Maryland||Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science||Department of Planetology||University of Tokyo||Department of Planetology||University of Tokyo||Institute of Space and Astronautical Science||NASA Johnson Space Center||University of Arizona||JHU/APL||Southwest Research Institute||University of Arizona||Southwest Research Institute||ESA/ESTEC||ESA/ESTEC

Volume: Michel P.; Kuppers M.; Bagatin A.C.; Carry B.; Charnoz S.; de Leon J.; Fitzsimmons A.; Gordo P.; Green S.F.; Herique A.; Juzi M.; Karatekin O.; Kohout T.; Lazzarin M.; Murdoch N.; Okada T.; Palomba E.; Pravec P.; Snodgrass C.; Tortora P.; Tsiganis K.; Ulamec S.; Vincent J.-B.; Wunnemann K.; Zhang Y.; Raducan S.D.; Dotto E.; Chabot N.; Cheng A.F.; Rivkin A.; Barnouin O.; Ernst C.; Stickle A.; Richardson D.C.; Thomas C.; Arakawa M.; Miyamoto H.; Nakamura A.; Sugita S.; Yoshikawa M.; Abell P.; Asphaug E.; Ballouz R.-L.; Bottke W.F.; Lauretta D.S.; Walsh K.J.; Martino P.; Carnelli I., Issue: 2022, Pages: Michel||Küppers||Bagatin||Carry||Charnoz||de Leon||Fitzsimmons||Gordo||Green||Hérique||Juzi||Karatekin||Kohout||Lazzarin||Murdoch||Okada||Palomba||Pravec||Snodgrass||Tortora||Tsiganis||Ulamec||Vincent||Wünnemann||Zhang||Raducan||Dotto||Chabot||Cheng||Rivkin||Barnouin||Ernst||Stickle||Richardson||Thomas||Arakawa||Miyamoto||Nakamura||Sugita||Yoshikawa||Abell||Asphaug||Ballouz||Bottke||Lauretta||Walsh||Martino||Carnelli-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 impacted by NASA’s DART spacecraft on 2022 September 26 as the first asteroid deflection test. The main goals of Hera are the detailed characterization of the physical properties of Didymos and Dimorphos and of the crater made by the DART mission, as well as measurement of the momentum transfer efficiency resulting from DART’s impact. The data from the Hera spacecraft and its two CubeSats will also provide significant insights into asteroid science and the evolutionary history of our solar system. Hera will perform the first rendezvous with a binary asteroid and provide new measurements, such as radar sounding of an asteroid interior, which will allow models in planetary science to be tested. Hera will thus provide a crucial element in the global effort to avert future asteroid impacts at the same time as providing world-leading science.