October 7, 2024 at 10:52 a.m. EDT

SpaceX's Falcon 9 launches the European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Space Launch Complex 40.

Hera will visit the Didymos asteroid and examine the impact on its moon, Dimorphos, after NASA's (DART) Double Asteroid Redirection Test Spacecraft knocked it off course two years ago.