How Hera asteroid mission will phone home

Paris (ESA) Dec 27, 2022

This is the antenna that will transmit back the first close-up images of the distant Dimorphos asteroid since its orbit was shifted by a collision with NASA's DART spacecraft. The 1.13-m diameter High Gain Antenna of ESA's Hera mission went through a week-long test campaign at the Compact Antenna Test Range, part of the Agency's ESTEC technical centre in the Netherlands. The CATR's m