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Copernical Team

Tuesday, 17 March 2026 11:00

Hera on course for asteroid rendezvous

Hera approaching Didymos asteroids

A successful deep-space manoeuvre has put ESA’s Hera spacecraft on course for its rendezvous with the Didymos binary asteroid system later this year.

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CryoSat views a geomagnetic storm

It seems improbable that a satellite designed to monitor polar ice sheets and floating sea ice could accurately measure a disturbance in Earth’s magnetic field. But that is just what ESA’s CryoSat mission did earlier this year.

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 Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana with Vega-C and Ariane 6 launch facilities in the background
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