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Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.
Hera is a space mission in development at the European Space Agency in its Space Safety program. Its primary objective is to study the Didymos binary asteroid system that was impacted by DART and contribute to validation of the kinetic impact method to deviate a near-Earth asteroid in a colliding trajectory with Earth. It will measure the size and the morphology of the crater created by and momentum transferred by an artificial projectile impacting an asteroid, which will allow measuring the efficiency of the deflection produced by the impact. It will also analyze the expanding debris cloud caused by the impact.
Height 70.00 Meters
Max Stages 2
Mass To GTO 8300 kg
Liftoff Thrust 7607 kN
Diameter 3.65 Meters
Mass To LEO 22800 kg
Liftoff Mass 549 Tonnes
Launch Success 322
Consecutive Success 25
Maiden Flight 2018-05-11
Launch Failures 1
Serial B1061
Status expended
Flight Proven Yes
Flights 23
Landing Attempt No
Landing Success Unknown
Type EXP
Location ATL
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-10-07T16:18:00+0000
Hera signal acquired and all systems nominal.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-10-07T16:08:00+0000
Spacecraft separation.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-10-07T14:52:00+0000
Liftoff.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-10-07T14:19:00+0000
Updated launch weather, 60% GO.
LL2
2024-10-07T14:11:00+0000
Official Webcast by European Space Agency, ESA has started
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-10-07T08:33:00+0000
Tweaked T-0.
Nosu
2024-10-06T16:57:00+0000
Weather is 15% favorable for launch.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-10-02T14:36:00+0000
Launch time confirmed per marine navigation warnings.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-09-01T02:02:34+0000
Added launch time.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-05-12T08:17:12+0000
NET October 7.
Nosu
2023-04-07T14:58:31+0000
Targeting October 8, 2024
Nosu
2022-12-29T15:27:39+0000
NET October 2024
Nosu
2022-10-20T12:21:12+0000
Adding launch NET 2024
2024-10-07T22:01:35+0000
SpacePolicyOnline.com
2024-10-07T21:29:00+0000
ESA
2024-10-07T17:00:00+0000
ESA
2024-10-07T16:28:20+0000
SpaceNews
2024-10-07T11:59:32+0000
NASASpaceflight
2024-10-07T09:12:01+0000
Spaceflight Now
2024-10-06T23:15:00+0000
The Launch Pad
2024-10-06T19:47:26+0000
SpaceNews
2024-10-06T11:00:00+0000
ESA
2024-10-04T21:52:00+0000
ESA
2024-10-04T13:00:00+0000
ESA
2024-09-30T21:22:09+0000
NASASpaceflight
2024-09-30T15:37:00+0000
ESA
2024-09-30T10:32:00+0000
ESA
2024-09-27T13:41:00+0000
ESA
2024-09-26T14:52:00+0000
ESA
2024-09-23T13:09:00+0000
ESA
2024-09-18T13:53:00+0000
ESA
2024-09-11T15:22:00+0000
ESA
2024-09-02T10:00:00+0000
ESA
2024-07-31T15:37:00+0000
ESA
2024-07-24T09:55:00+0000
ESA
2024-07-11T09:40:00+0000
ESA
2024-06-27T11:30:00+0000
ESA
2024-06-25T20:25:08+0000
NASA
2023-06-10T18:35:01+0000
NASASpaceflight
2022-10-24T05:29:34+0000
Teslarati
2022-10-20T13:13:22+0000
SpaceNews