The ESA Hera Mission: Detailed Characterization of the DART Impact Outcome and of the Binary Asteroid (65803) Didymos

Michel, Patrick and Küppers, Michael and Campo Bagatin, Adriano and Carry, Benoit and Charnoz, Sebastien and Leon de, Julia and Fitzsimmons, Alan and Gordo, Paulo and Green, Simon F. and Herique, Alain and Jutzi, Martin and Karatekin, Ozgur and Kohouth, Tomas and Lazzarin, Monica and Murdoch, Naomi and Okada, Tatsuaki and Palomba, Ernesto and Pravec, Petr and Snodgrass, Colin and Tortora, Paolo and Tsiganis, Kleomenis and Ulamec, Stephan and Vincent, Jean-Baptiste and Wünnemann, Kai and Zhang, Yun and Raducan, Sabina and Dotto, Elisabetta and Chabot, Nancy L. and Cheng, Andy and Rivkin, Andy and Barnouin, Olivier and Ernst, Carolyn M. and Stickle, Angela and Richardson, Derek C. and Thomas, Cristina A. and Arakawa, Masahiko and Miyamoto, Hirdy and Nakamura, Akiko and Sugita, Seiji and Yoshikawa, Makoto and Abell, Paul and Asphaug, Erik and Ballouz, Ronald-Louis and Bottke, William and Lauretta, Dante and Walsh, Kevin J. and Martino, Paolo and Carnelli, Ian (2022) The ESA Hera Mission: Detailed Characterization of the DART Impact Outcome and of the Binary Asteroid (65803) Didymos. The Planetary Science Journal, 3 (7), p. 160. Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing. doi: 10.3847/PSJ/ac6f52. ISSN 2632-3338.

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Abstract

Hera is a planetary defense mission under development in the Space Safety and Security Program of the European Space Agency for launch in 2024 October. It will rendezvous in late 2026 December with the binary asteroid (65803) Didymos and in particular its moon, Dimorphos, which will be impacted by NASA’s DART spacecraft on 2022 September 26 as the first asteroid deflection test. The main goals of Hera are the detailed characterization of the physical properties of Didymos and Dimorphos and of the crater made by the DART mission, as well as measurement of the momentum transfer efficiency resulting from DART’s impact. The data from the Hera spacecraft and its two CubeSats will also provide significant insights into asteroid science and the evolutionary history of our solar system. Hera will perform the first rendezvous with a binary asteroid and provide new measurements, such as radar sounding of an asteroid interior, which will allow models in planetary science to be tested. Hera will thus provide a crucial element in the global effort to avert future asteroid impacts at the same time as providing world-leading science.

Item URL in elib:

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Document Type:

Article

Title:

The ESA Hera Mission: Detailed Characterization of the DART Impact Outcome and of the Binary Asteroid (65803) Didymos

Authors:

Authors	Institution or Email of Authors	Author's ORCID iD	ORCID Put Code
Michel, Patrick	Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, CNRS, France	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Küppers, Michael	European Space Agency (ESA), European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), Madrid, Spain	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Campo Bagatin, Adriano	Universidad de Alicante, Spain	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Carry, Benoit	LESIA Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, Meudon, France	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Charnoz, Sebastien	Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Leon de, Julia	Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Spain	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Fitzsimmons, Alan	Queens Univ., Belfast, UK	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Gordo, Paulo	Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Green, Simon F.	The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Herique, Alain	Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IPAG, F-38000 Grenoble, France	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Jutzi, Martin	Physikalisches Institut, University of Bern	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Karatekin, Ozgur	Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Kohouth, Tomas	Dep. of Physics, University of Helsinki & The Czech Academy of Science	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Lazzarin, Monica	University of Padova, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vicolo dell'Osservatorio 3, 35122 Padova, Italy	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Murdoch, Naomi	Institut Supérieur de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace (ISAE ‐ SUPAERO), Université de Toulouse, France	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Okada, Tatsuaki	ISAS Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Palomba, Ernesto	INAF Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, via Fosso del Cavaliere, 00133 Rome, Italy	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Pravec, Petr	Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Fricova 1, CZ-25165 Ondrejov, Czech Republic	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Snodgrass, Colin	University of Edinburgh, UK	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Tortora, Paolo	University of Bologna, Italy	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Tsiganis, Kleomenis	Department of Physics, Section of Astrophysics, Astronomy and Mechanics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Ulamec, Stephan	UNSPECIFIED	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8856-4622	UNSPECIFIED
Vincent, Jean-Baptiste	UNSPECIFIED	https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6575-3079	UNSPECIFIED
Wünnemann, Kai	Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung , Berlin, Germany	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Zhang, Yun	University of Maryland & Tsinghua University Beijing	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Raducan, Sabina	Physikalisches Institut, University of Bern	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Dotto, Elisabetta	Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Italy	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Chabot, Nancy L.	The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20723, USA.	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Cheng, Andy	Space Department, JHU/APL, Maryland USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Rivkin, Andy	John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laured, MD, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Barnouin, Olivier	Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20723	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Ernst, Carolyn M.	Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20723, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Stickle, Angela	Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Richardson, Derek C.	Univ. Maryland, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Thomas, Cristina A.	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Arakawa, Masahiko	isas/jaxa japan	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Miyamoto, Hirdy	Dept. Systems Innovation, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Nakamura, Akiko	Dept. of Planetology, Graduate School of Science, Kobe Univ., Nada, Kobe, Japan	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Sugita, Seiji	University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Yoshikawa, Makoto	Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Japan	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Abell, Paul	NASA Johnson Space Center	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Asphaug, Erik	NASA-Ames Research Center, Moffet Field, CA, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Ballouz, Ronald-Louis	University of Maryland	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Bottke, William	Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO 80302, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Lauretta, Dante	Southwest Research Institute	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Walsh, Kevin J.	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Martino, Paolo	ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Carnelli, Ian	ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED

Date:

July 2022

Journal or Publication Title:

The Planetary Science Journal

Refereed publication:

Yes

Open Access:

Yes

Gold Open Access:

Yes

In SCOPUS:

Yes

In ISI Web of Science:

Yes

Volume:

DOI:

10.3847/PSJ/ac6f52

Page Range:

p. 160

Publisher:

Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing

ISSN:

2632-3338

Status:

Published

Keywords:

Near-Earth objects (1092); Asteroid satellites (2207); Impact phenomena (779); Asteroid dynamics (2210); Asteroid surfaces (2209)

HGF - Research field:

Aeronautics, Space and Transport

HGF - Program:

Space

HGF - Program Themes:

Space Exploration

DLR - Research area:

Raumfahrt

DLR - Program:

R EW - Space Exploration

DLR - Research theme (Project):

R - Exploration of the Solar System

Location:

Berlin-Adlershof , Köln-Porz

Institutes and Institutions:

Institute of Planetary Research > Planetary Geodesy
Space Operations and Astronaut Training > User center for space experiments (MUSC)

Deposited By:

Vincent, Jean-Baptiste

Deposited On:

25 Jul 2022 11:51

Last Modified:

29 Mar 2023 00:02

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