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Planet\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"text-align-justify\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eMadrid, 8 October, 2024\u003c/b\u003e – Hera, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) first planetary defence mission,\u0026nbsp; was successfully launched yesterday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The satellite is now heading to a unique target among the 1.3 million known asteroids of our Solar System.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"text-align-justify\"\u003eIf an incoming asteroid were to threaten Earth, what could be done to cope with the situation? On September 26\u003csup\u003eth\u003c/sup\u003e 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission performed humankind’s first test of asteroid deflection by crashing into the Great-Pyramid-sized Dimorphos moonlet. This resulted in a shift of its orbit around the mountain-sized Didymos main asteroid.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003carticle class=\"align-center media media--type-immagine media--view-mode-full\"\u003e\n  \n      \n            \u003cdiv class=\"field field--name-field-media-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item\"\u003e  \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://tas-static.thalesaleniaspace.com/cms/public/thales_images/hera_networking_with_cubesats.png?VersionId=bRHTEAFVP_YycbBukdzWKd2XvSPZ12SD\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1406\" alt=\"Hera networking with Cubesats\"\u003e\n\n\u003c/div\u003e\n      \n  \u003c/article\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"text-align-justify\"\u003eHera networking with Cubesats ©ESA\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"text-align-justify\"\u003eNext comes ESA’s own contribution to the international Asteroid Impact \u0026amp; Deflection Assessment (AIDA) collaboration: the Hera mission will travel to Dimorphos so as to gather vital close-up data regarding the deflected body and turn DART’s grand-scale kinetic impact experiment into a well-understood and potentially repeatable planetary defence technique. Hera will provide in particular accurate measurements concerning the asteroid’s mass, as well as crucial information about its make-up and structure, which are essential to interpret the outcome of the impact.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"text-align-justify\"\u003eThe Hera mission, will also carry out the most detailed exploration to date of a binary asteroid system – although binaries make up 15% of all known asteroids, they have never been studied in detail. Hera will also perform technology demonstration experiments, including the deployment of ESA’s first deep space ‘CubeSats’ – shoebox-sized spacecraft to venture closer than the main mission then eventually land – and an ambitious test of 'self-driving' for the main spacecraft, based on vision-based navigation. The OHB System AG (Germany), as prime contractor of Hera, led the industrial consortium, including responsibility for the overall spacecraft design, development, assembly, and testing.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThales Alenia Space’s contribution: a teamwork between Spain, Italy and Belgium\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"text-align-justify\"\u003eThales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), provided key technologies onboard Hera spacecraft. Thales Alenia Space in Spain was responsible for the communications subsystem, which allows to control and track the spacecraft from a distance up to 500 million kilometre away and to send all the information gathered by Hera back to Earth. Thales Alenia Space in Italy developed the state-of-art Deep Space Transponder, while Thales Alenia Space in Belgium assembled the Travelling Wave Tube Amplifiers (TWTA) built by Thales, and developed the Power Conditioning and Distribution Unit (PCDU), which provides power to the spacecraft during all its lifetime.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSafeguarding our planet \u003c/b\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"text-align-justify\"\u003eAsteroids are bodies originated in the young stars nebulae that never grew to planets, formed of rock and metal. Among them, those that have an orbit that brings them close to Earth (within 45 million kilometres), known as near-Earth asteroids, represent a risk of hitting the Earth. There are plenty of such bodies in our Solar system, from tiny little ones measuring a few meters (there are 40-50 millions of them) up to larger ones, measuring more than 1 km but much more scarce (there’s less than 1000 of them).\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"text-align-justify\"\u003eNeither the smaller near-Earth asteroids nor the larger ones represent a real threat to humanity. Small asteroids actually hit the Earth quite frequently (every two weeks) with no consequences. The larger ones, although potentially dangerous, are well known and tracked, and it takes millions of years to have one of them hitting the Earth. Actually, a 10km asteroid impact is the most accepted theory of the Cretaceous extinction around 66 million years ago, ending with three-quarters of the plant and animal species, among others the dinosaurs.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003carticle class=\"align-center media media--type-immagine media--view-mode-full\"\u003e\n  \n      \n            \u003cdiv class=\"field field--name-field-media-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item\"\u003e  \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://tas-static.thalesaleniaspace.com/cms/public/thales_images/hera_scans_dart_s_impact_crater_copyright-esa.png?VersionId=w0yFvrwDb7K.JaqPOXKLG2cmFTMFxytS\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1406\" alt=\"Hera scans impact crater\"\u003e\n\n\u003c/div\u003e\n      \n  \u003c/article\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eHera scans DART's impact crater\u0026nbsp;©ESA\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"text-align-justify\"\u003eThe \u003cb\u003emid-sized class asteroids of more than 100 meters are\u003c/b\u003e the ones we need to worry about. There are about 30,000 near-Earth asteroids of the 100 to 300 meter size class, 82% of them still to be spotted, hitting the Earth every 10,000 years. The impact energy of such an asteroid is equivalent to around 50 megatons of TNT, the power of a “Tsar Bomba”. The effect of such an impact would be devastating if it reached a populated area, capable of destroying an entire city or to create a tsunami if it impacted a sea.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"text-align-justify\"\u003eThe Didymos binary asteroid system is prototypical in terms of size of the thousands of asteroids that pose a hazardous risk of impact to our planet. Around the Dydimos main body, 780 meter in diameter, orbits the 150 meter Dimorphos moonlet, which is the first body in the Solar System to have had its orbit measurably changed through human action, by the DART impact, and it is also the smallest asteroid yet visited by humankind.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"text-align-justify\"\u003eThe Hera spacecraft will reach the binary asteroid in October 2026, after a two-year cruise phase. The day Hera reaches Didymos, it will be 195 million km away from Earth.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eABOUT THALES ALENIA SPACE\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on over 40 years of experience and a unique combination of skills, expertise and cultures, Thales Alenia Space delivers cost-effective solutions for telecommunications, navigation, Earth observation, environmental management, exploration, science and orbital infrastructures. Governments and private industry alike count on Thales Alenia Space to design satellite-based systems that provide anytime, anywhere connections and positioning, monitor our planet, enhance management of its resources and explore our Solar System and beyond. Thales Alenia Space sees space as a new horizon, helping to build a better, more sustainable life on Earth. A joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), Thales Alenia Space also teams up with Telespazio to form the parent companies’ Space Alliance, which offers a complete range of services. Thales Alenia Space posted consolidated revenues of approximately €2.2 billion in 2023. Thales Alenia Space has around 8,600 employees in 9 countries, with 16 sites in Europe and a plant in the US.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ewww.thalesaleniaspace.com\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHALES ALENIA SPACE\u003c/strong\u003e – PRESS CONTACTS\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOriol Casas Thió\u003cbr\u003e\nTel.: +34 618 509 197\u003cbr\u003e\noriol.casasthio@thalesaleniaspace.com\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTarik Lahlou\u003cbr\u003e\nTel: +33 (0)6 87 95 89 56\u003cbr\u003e\ntarik.lahlou@thalesaleniaspace.com\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCatherine des Arcis\u003cbr\u003e\nTel: +33 (0)6 78 64 63 97\u003cbr\u003e\ncatherine.des-arcis@thalesaleniaspace.com\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp aria-hidden='true'\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\n","blocks":[],"boxCarousel":{"slide":[]},"next":{"name":"Hera planetary defence mission successfully launched","url":"/en/press-releases/hera-planetary-defence-mission-successfully-launched","image":{"src":"https://tas-static.thalesaleniaspace.com/cms/public/styles/241x143/public/thales_images/hera_networking_with_cubesats.png.webp?VersionId=p_NhWXx8Mz551jJA8oKy05yoFYC.HngO\u0026h=e75ab034\u0026itok=Q_G5AW5b","alt":"Hera networking with Cubesats"}}},"seo":{"desc":"Hera, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) first planetary defence mission,  was successfully launched yesterday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, from Cape Canaveral in Florida. 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