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@deepbluedot

Head of Systems Department @esa
#HeraMission manager 🦖☄️ #PlanetaryDefense 🇪🇺🇮🇹🇫🇷

hera.esa.int Joined October 2011

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Ian @deepbluedot 5d

I’m sure we will have many surprises 👀

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Han Solo was wrong! The trick to flying a spaceship around asteroids is going *really* slowly…
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ESA’s newly-arrived Hera mission is moving at just 12 cm/s around the Didymos binary asteroids, about as rapid as a fast-crawling insect!

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Ian @deepbluedot 23h

In Formula 1, a pit stop takes just over 2 seconds. 🚀🏎️

Behind those 2 seconds? Years of training, absolute trust, and a team moving as one.

In space missions, it’s no different. Different challenges, same secret: extraordinary things happen when people work as one.

We had a chance to put our teamwork to the test in Ferrari’s pit stop challenge.

Let’s just say… @ScuderiaFerrari, your jobs are safe. For now. 😉🔴

#Ferrari #Teamwork #Formula1 #SpaceExploration #HeraMission

Ian @deepbluedot 5d

Super proud of you Chiara! 💪🏻

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Human for scale 🧍

Chiara meets Amalia 🤝 @esa ExoMars rover engineer Chiara Lombardi stands next to Amalia, a twin model of the Rosalind Franklin rover, after it drove off its landing platform.

This will be one of the most critical moments of the mission when the rover reaches Mars in 2030.

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Ian @deepbluedot 5d

An asteroid disappears into shadow. But #HeraMission can still see it.

@ISAS_JAXA_EN 's TIRI instrument is already revealing how Dimorphos cools without sunlight.

Every new instrument gives us another way to understand these extraordinary little worlds 🇪🇺🇯🇵

ISAS（JAXA宇宙科学研究所） @ISAS_JAXA Nov 6

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二重小惑星探査計画Hera探査機搭載熱赤外カメラ（TIRI）の初期観測画像
～二重小惑星系の熱撮像～
isas.jaxa.jp/topics/004428.…
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Ian @deepbluedot 6d

#HeraMission now (as seen from the Sun and above Dimorphos' orbit plan with Sun to the right)