SpaceX Launches ESA Hera Spacecraft For Asteroid Encounter

Credit: SpaceX webcast
CAPE CANAVERAL—Defying grim weather forecasts, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket on Oct. 7 to send the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hera spacecraft and a pair of cubesats on their way toward an asteroid system that was the target of a NASA planetary defense mission two years ago. The new mission...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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