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October 7, 2024
SpaceX Falcon 9 ESA HERA Misson to Asteroid Dimorphos

Launched: 10:52 AM EDT
Launch site: Space Launch Complex (SLC) 40, Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Booster: 23rd Flight. No landing, no grid fins, Final flight, booster expended (no re-use)
Payload: ESA's HERA spacecraft

HERA is a mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) whose goal is to validate if impact can be used to deflect an asteroid on a collision course with the Earth.
This satellite will study the results from by NASA's DART impactor spacecraft, which purposely crashed into the Dimorphos asteroid in September 2022. It will measure size and morphology of the impact site.

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Booster history: 23rd and Final flight

previously launched Crew-1, Crew-2, SXM-8, CRS-23, IXPE, Transporter-4, Transporter-5, Globalstar FM15, ISI EROS C-3, Korea 425, Maxar 1, ASBM, and 10 Starlink missions
Booster recovery: NONE
Fairing recovery: NONE

SpaceX Stats:
xx launch of the year and the xx launch of the month.

xx launch from SLC-40.

Target orbit: Asteroid Dimorphos