SpaceX Launches ESA's Hera Probe To Asteroid Dimorphos

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the European Space Agency's Hera mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Oct. 7, 2024 at 1452 UTC. Hera will visit Dimorphos — the asteroid that NASA's DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft knocked off course in September 2022," according to SpaceX which launched DART for NASA in November 2021