Launched ESA's Hera planetary defense probe toward the binary asteroid Didymos to survey the aftermath of NASA's DART impact on the moonlet Dimorphos; the Falcon 9 booster was expended to give the probe its required escape energy.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Asteroid
- Payload to orbit
- 1.2 T
- Flight
- 322nd
- of 638 Falcon 9 Block 5 flights
- Date and time
- 7 October 2024, 14:52 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Robotic Exploration
- International designator
- 2024-180
- Launches in 2024
- 185th of 263
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