Riding with Hera are two small cubesats, named Juventas and Milani. The shoebox-sized craft are stashed inside little "garages" on board Hera called Deep Space Deployers, and they will be released ...

Hera’s job, Carnelli said, is to reach Didymos and gather all the necessary scientfic data to turn this one-off experiment into a validated and repeatable technique. To do so, it will release two ...

Credit: ESA/JAXA Hera has a total of 12 payloads aboard, as well as two cubesats that it won’t release until after it reaches Dimorphos and Didymos in December 2026. When it arrives at the ...

New images of the mysterious Martian moon Deimos were captured when the Hera mission activated its instruments past Earth for ...

Hera came as near as 5000 kilometres to the ... The mission also carries two miniature satellites, or CubeSats, called Juventas and Milani. Rather than orbiting Dimorphos, these will fly in ...

CubeSats have a lot of advantages. They are small, inexpensive, and easily reproducible. But those advantages also come with significant disadvantages—they have trouble linking into broader ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) fires up three of the instruments on the Hera spacecraft and takes images of the smaller ...

Space is hard, especially if you haven’t done it before. A growing number of CubeSats are launched by small, inexperienced teams every year, and a number of them fail due to missing some small ...

While on a flyby of Mars, Hera was able to use three of its imaging instruments to capture images of Deimos, the smaller of Mars' two moons, the ESA said. Deimos is about 15,000 miles from Mars.

SpaceX is set to launch the European Space Agency's (ESA) Hera spacecraft, designed to study the asteroid Dimorphos, today (Oct. 7). The mission will assess the impact made by NASA's DART (Double ...