ESA’s Hera asteroid mission borrows eyes of NASA’s Dawn
Monday, March 18, 2019 - 05:00
in Astronomy & Space
The mission to the smallest asteroid ever explored will employ the same main camera as the mission to the largest asteroids of all. ESA’s proposed Hera spacecraft to the Didymos asteroid pair has inherited its main imager from NASA’s Dawn mission to the Vesta and Ceres asteroids.