Europe Launches Spacecraft to Explore Asteroid Hit by NASA — VOA Learning English
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A European spacecraft has been launched to explore an asteroid struck in an earlier planetary defense mission by the American space agency NASA.
The European Space Agency (ESA’s) Hera spacecraft launched October 7 from NASA’s Cape Canaveral in Florida. The spacecraft, or probe, was carried to space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Hera is headed to the asteroid Dimorphos. NASA crashed its DART spacecraft into the space rock in 2022 in an area about 11 million kilometers from Earth. The NASA mission was an experiment to test a method for changing the orbit of asteroids that might one day threaten Earth.
NASA has said its own studies of the crash showed it was successful because the force of the…
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