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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Hera
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Mission brief
The flight at a glance.
Hera is a space mission in development at the European Space Agency in its Space Safety program. Its primary objective is to study the Didymos binary asteroid system that was impacted by DART and contribute to validation of the kinetic impact method to deviate a near-Earth asteroid in a colliding trajectory with Earth. It will measure the size and the morphology of the crater created by and momentum transferred by an artificial projectile impacting an asteroid, which will allow measuring the efficiency of the deflection produced by the impact. It will also analyze the expanding debris cloud caused by the impact.
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Planned timings relative to the target. These steps do not indicate live progress.
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GO for Prop Load
- T−00:35:00
Stage 1 LOX Load
- T−00:35:00
Prop Load
- T−00:16:00
Stage 2 LOX Load
- T−00:07:00
Engine Chill
- T−00:01:00
Tank Press
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- T−00:01:00
Startup
- T−00:00:45
GO for Launch
- T−00:00:03
Ignition
- T+00:00:00
Liftoff
- T+00:01:14
Max-Q
- T+00:02:41
MECO
- T+00:02:44
Stage 2 Separation
- T+00:02:51
SES-1
- T+00:03:33
Fairing Separation
- T+00:03:33
Fairing Separation
- T+00:07:39
SECO-1
- T+00:07:39
SECO-1
- T+00:52:22
SES-2
- T+00:54:00
SECO-1
- T+01:16:02
Payload Separation