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Lunar Gateway: Earth’s guard post against asteroids?
Humankind’s next space outpost, the lunar Gateway, will serve as a staging point to reach the surface of the Moon. A new ESA-backed study is considering whether it could also be used as a deployment point for planetary defence missions, to
ESA commissions world’s first space debris removal
ClearSpace-1 will be the first space mission to remove an item of debris from orbit, planned for launch in 2025. The mission is being procured as a service contract with a startup-led commercial consortium, to help establish a new market fo
ESA’s Hera asteroid mission is go
Video: 00:00:42 Europe’s space ministers gathered at Space19+ in Seville, Spain in November 2019 have approved ESA’s Hera asteroid mission for construction and launch, as part of the Agency's broader planetary defence initiatives that aim t
Amateur astronomers: help choose asteroid flybys for Hera
Amateur astronomers around the world are being asked to help the proposed ESA asteroid mission. As well as exploring its final destination – the Didymos binary asteroid system – the Hera spacecraft could potentially fly past one or more bod
Planetary Society endorses Hera
Planetary Society endorses Hera The Planetary Society urges ESA's Member States to fund the Hera mission
Luxembourg firm enabling peek inside asteroid
ESA’s Juventas is a tiny spacecraft assigned a very big goal. Small enough to fit in an aircraft carry-on bag, this nanosatellite would be carried to deep space by ESA’s proposed Hera mission, before diving down to perform the very first ra
Apollo astronaut champions Hera for planetary defence
Having spent much of the 21st century developing planetary defence techniques, Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart is a strong supporter of ESA’s proposed Hera mission. In general, when it comes to asteroid deflection, he says, two spacecraf
Hera’s radar CubeSat will peer into asteroid’s heart
ESA’s proposed Hera asteroid mission for planetary defence will carry the smallest radar instrument ever flown in space – flying on a separate mini-spacecraft, it will approach two asteroids closer than its mothership and probe deep into th
Automating collision avoidance
ESA is preparing to use machine learning to protect satellites from the very real and growing danger of space debris. The Agency is developing a collision avoidance system that will automatically assess the risk and likelihood of in-space c
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