Hera Launch Thread
| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2024-10-07, 14:52 |
|---|---|
| Scheduled for (local) | 2024-10-07, 10:52 (EDT) |
| Launch site | SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA |
| Booster | B1061-23 |
| Landing | No |
| Payload | Hera |
| Customer | ESA |
| Mission success criteria | Successful delivery of payload to Heliocentric Orbit |
Webcasts
| Stream | Link |
|---|---|
| ESA | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O13Sp00Ltlw |
| Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZwKh5geuNk |
| Spaceflight Now | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHoKhL56KZ0 |
| NASASpaceflight | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXsd0NvHVNI |
| The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feQg1g0lI3g |
| SpaceX | https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1843298058693390642 |
| The Space Devs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-O0gpj0gUs |
Stats
Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:
☑️ 25th consecutive successful Falcon 9 launch (if successful)
☑️ 46th launch from SLC-40 this year
☑️ 8 days, 21:34:39 turnaround for this pad
☑️ 94th Falcon 9 mission this year, 380th Falcon 9 mission overall
☑️ 95th SpaceX mission of 2024, 395th mission overall (excluding Starship flights)
☑️ 97th SpaceX launch this year, 408th SpaceX launch overall (including Starship flights)
Mission info
Hera is a space mission of the European Space Agency whose objective is to validate the kinetic impact method to deflect a possible asteroid circulating on a collision course with the Earth. The satellite will study the results obtained by the DART impactor developed by NASA which successfully crashed into the Dimorphos asteroid in September 2022.