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#SWR:

"Schutz vor Asteroiden
Interview mit Marco Fuchs: "Es ist oft schwierig, Raumfahrt zu finanzieren""

"Die gerade gestartete "Hera"-Sonde wurde vom deutschen Raumfahrt- und Technologiekonzern OHB gebaut. SWR Wissen hat mit dem OHB-Vorstandsvorsitzenden Marco Fuchs gesprochen."

swr.de/wissen/hera-mission-rau

9.10.2024

swr.online"Es ist oft schwierig, Raumfahrt zu finanzieren"Die erfolgreich gestartete europäische "Hera"-Sonde stammt vom deutschen Raumfahrt- und Technologiekonzern OHB. Wir haben mit dem OHB-Vorstandsvorsitzenden Marco Fuchs gesprochen.

Two years ago, a probe known as #DART hit the bull's-eye for a collision with a mini-asteroid known as #Dimorphos, changing its trajectory in the process. Now a follow-up probe called #Hera has been launched to do a "crash scene investigation" and see what can be learned about diverting any asteroids that might threaten Earth in the future. cosmiclog.com/2024/10/07/hera- #ESA #Asteroid #Space

Cosmic Log · Hera probe heads off to investigate asteroid smash-upThe European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft is on its way to do follow-up observations of Dimorphos, two years after an earlier probe knocked the mini-asteroid into a different orbital path around …