Falcon 9 Block 5

Status

Hera

Launch Time
NET Oct 08, 2024

Rocket

Falcon 9 Block 5

Image Credit: SpaceX

SpaceX

Status: Active

Price: $67.0 million

Liftoff Thrust: 7,607 kN

Payload to LEO: 22,800 kg

Payload to GTO: 8,300 kg

Stages: 2

Strap-ons: 0

Rocket Height: 70.0 m

Fairing Diameter: 5.2 m

Fairing Height: 13.0 m

Details

Mission Details

Hera

Hera is a space mission of the European Space Agency whose objective is to validate the kinetic impact method to deflect a possible asteroid circulating on a collision course with the Earth. The satellite will study the results obtained by the DART impactor developed by NASA which successfully crashed into the Dimorphos asteroid in September 2022.

Payloads: 1

Total Mass: 870.0 kg

Heliocentric Orbit

Location

SLC-40 or LC-39A, Florida, USA

Stats

2024

97th orbital launch attempt

SpaceX

349th mission

49th mission of 2024

Falcon 9

334th mission

48th mission of 2024