ISAE-SUPAERO is actively collaborating in the international Hera probe program through the research work of Naomi Murdoch and the SSPA team. The probe, which is en route to study the asteroid ...

A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.

Images from the Hera mission show the object in remarkable detail — a small island gliding above the crater-scarred Martian ...

While the car-sized spacecraft flew around the Mars system, flight controllers on Earth temporarily lost communication with ...

For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometers from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometers an hour. It ...

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.

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

The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...

ESA's Hera spacecraft for planetary defense performs a flyby of Mars. The gravity of the red planet shifts the spacecraft's trajectory towards the Didymos binary asteroid system, shortening its trip ...

For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometres from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometres an hour. It ...

Martian moon ... on the surface of Deimos." Understanding the composition and make-up of Deimos is important, because we don't understand the origins of either of Mars' moons. Both Phobos and ...