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NEO-MAPP
NEO-MAPP (Near-Earth object, Near-Earth-Object Modelling and Payloads for Protection) is a project for studying Asteroid impact avoidance, planetary defence and asteroid exploration. This project is focused on two main topics, that are: on one side, maturation of existing digital modelisation capacities of various process governing asteroids evolution (impact, dynamic, structural evolution) and its adaptation to specific use cases, and, on the other side, development of instruments, technologies and data exploitation models linked to it, in order to support space missions towards near-Earth-objects. Presentation The NEO-MAPP project, financed by the European Commission through its Horizon 2020 programme, is coordinated by the French French National Centre for Scientific Research, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and its coordinator Patrick Michel, from Lagrange Laboratory, who is also the Principal Investigator of European Space Agency, ESA's Hera (space missi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hera (space Mission)
''Hera'' is a space mission in development at the European Space Agency in its Space Safety program. Its primary objective is to study the Didymos binary asteroid system that was impacted by DART and contribute to validation of the kinetic impact method to deviate a near-Earth asteroid in a colliding trajectory with Earth. It will measure the size and the morphology of the crater created by and momentum transferred by an artificial projectile impacting an asteroid, which will allow measuring the efficiency of the deflection produced by the impact. The spacecraft will be launched in October 2024 and will also study the results of DART impactor, four years after NASA's mission. DART impacted the asteroid Dimorphos, the smaller of two objects forming the binary asteroid 65803 Didymos, on 27 September 2022. ''Hera'' has a mass of 1128 kilograms and carries a payload of cameras, an altimeter, and a spectrometer. It will also carry two nano-satellite CubeSats, called ''Milan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
