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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Monday, October 7, 2024 carrying a Europe's Hera spacecraft.

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Video. ESA launches planetary defence mission to return to deflected asteroid

Updated: 08/10/2024 - 17:04 GMT+2

Hera will survey the asteroid deflected by NASA's DART spacecraft, the results of which could lay the foundation of Earth's planetary defence system.

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