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Hera Mars & Deimos Flyby

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Hera Mars & Deimos Flyby

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Mission brief

The flight at a glance.

Hera is a European Space Agency (ESA) mission launched on 7 October 2024 to visit the asteroid Didymos and its moon Dimorphos as part of the NASA/ESA Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment (AIDA) collaboration. On 7 March 2025, it will fly by Mars (within 6000 km) and Deimos (~1000 km).

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Published flight sequence

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Planned timings relative to the target. These steps do not indicate live progress.

A flight sequence has not been published for this mission.