SpaceX, ESA to launch Hera spacecraft to study impact of NASA's DART mission

Oct. 7 (UPI) -- SpaceX and the European Space Agency plan to launch a spacecraft on Monday that will study the impacts of a NASA planetary defense test meant to alter the trajectory of asteroids.

If the weather cooperates, with Hurricane Milton brewing in the Gulf of Mexico, the Hera mission will blast off from Cape Canaveral's Space Force Station in Florida at 10:52 a.m., EDT.

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