ESA's Hera mission is ready for transport to NASA's Kennedy Space Center next week. I must admit it was very emotional to see the empty clean room 😢 so much work and tears went into this project and soon we won’t see her ever again #HeraMission

The day has arrived for ESA's Hera mission to leave #ESTEC for good. We worked tirelessly for you, we cried, we laughed, we argued and we cheered. We will miss you ❤️

"ESA's Hera mission has left the building."

Hera is on the move! 🇳🇱🚛🇩🇪🛫🇺🇸 The spacecraft and its CubeSats were transported from ESA's test centre in the Netherlands to Cologne-Bonn airport last night and are currently being loaded onto a cargo plane for tonight's flight to the USA. esa.int/Space_Safety/H…

Passport ✅ Boarding pass ✅ Cameras ✅ Chargers ✅ CubeSat passengers: Juventus✅ Milani✅ Boarding complete! Just a few hours until take off!

The second leg of Hera's journey across the Atlantic has begun! After a stop in Ireland, ESA's Hera spacecraft is in the air again and on the way to NASA's Kennedy Space Center. 🇮🇪🛫🛬🇺🇸 Follow the flight at: radarbox.com/data/registrat…

☄️🎆Incoming! The ninth ever immininent impactor has been discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey this morning. There will be a harmless, but likely spectacular fireball in about 8 hours, caused by a small ~1 metre diameter object entering Earth's atmosphere near the Philippines.

⚠️☄️Incoming! A roughly 1 metre asteroid will strike Earth’s atmosphere over the Philippines near Luzon Island at 17:08 UTC today, 4 September. The object is harmless, but people in the area may see a spectacular fireball! Discovered this morning by the Catalina Sky Survey,

📣UPDATE: We expect the ~1 m asteroid discovered this morning to strike Earth's atmosphere over the Philippines near Luzon Island at 16:46 UTC today. However the nearby tropical storm Yagi/Enteng will make fireball observations difficult. Stay safe everyone!

📣UPDATE 2: We expect the ~1 m asteroid discovered this morning to strike Earth's atmosphere over the Philippines near Luzon Island at 16:39 UTC today. Thanks to new observations, we now have a very good idea of where it will impact. And the object has a name! Welcome to Earth

Might we one day see a human-made meteor shower? It's possible, according to an analysis of the debris thrown into space when NASA's DART mission slammed into asteroid Dimorphos. Small, harmless pieces could make it to Mars, or even Earth, in the future. esa.int/Space_Safety/H…

We smashed a probe into an asteroid to learn about defending Earth - some of the tiny debris particles may give us a meteor shower in 2031. details: tinyurl.com/w32ytan6 video: Les Makes observatory, European Space Agency

The moment #HeraMission's two accompanying #CubeSats reached Cape Canaveral: spectral surveyor Milani, left and radar mapper Juventas, right. They have now been integrated onto their Hera mothership esa.int/ESA_Multimedia…

🗼Calling all Parisians! This is your chance to hear directly from #HeraMission's planetary defence scientists & engineers, speaking at @ESA HQ on 20 September ahead of the mission launch next month (event in French🇫🇷 ). Register now to attend: deadline next Monday

#IdéeSortie à #Paris : plongez avec un panel d’experts dans l’univers captivant des missions de défense planétaire pour la 2e conférence du cycle Rencontres en apESAnteur. Nos experts présents sur place seront Pamini Annat, Ian Carnelli (alias Ian) et Dr. Patrick Michel.