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

Joined October 2011
#OTD 10 years ago @ESA_Rosetta came to rest on comet 67P closing an extraordinary chapter of European exploration ☄️ Today @ESA_Hera is 330,000 km from Didymos — less than the distance from Earth to the Moon 🌍🌙 One journey ended. Another is about to begin. #Europe keeps daring
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View from Falcon 9's second stage during the Hera mission
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Missão Hera se aproxima de asteroide para estudar efeitos de colisão com nave da NASA #NASA #espaço #MissãoHera #astronomia
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In @esa's Hera mission design, the small Juventas CubeSat carries radar to probe inside Dimorphos, while Hera relays its signals. Small spacecraft can take on specialized measurements. This is the planned investigation, not a completed map of the interior. esa.int/Space_Safety/Hera/He…
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The European Space Agency's Hera mission is set to provide critical insights into planetary defense against asteroid threats. Experts involved in space, science, and culture have highlighted the importance of such missions in understanding our place in the universe.
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Next week's kid-oriented Science Days at Germany's @europa_park include talks on Hera - & a chance to experience the mission in VR - as well as an appearance by ESA astronaut @Astro_Alex (in 🇩🇪 language). Media welcome! esa.int/Newsroom/Press_Relea…
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🚀🇯🇵 C’est le grand jour pour MMX ! Le lanceur japonais H3 F10, emportant la sonde de la JAXA, décollera le 19 octobre à 21h41 (heure de Paris). Objectifs : rapporter des échantillons de Phobos, lune de Mars, et y déployer le rover européen Idefix. Une première mondiale !
H3ロケット10号機の機体移動始まりました! 初のH3-24L形態です! #H3H10 #MMX
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That moment when the fairing leaves facilities to meet its launch vehicle is really emotional. Years of hard work, worries, failures, sleepless nights are all mixed with hope, excitement, and high pressure knowing a million things can go wrong. Per aspera, ad astra 🚀💪🏻
🚀🏝️フェアリングに格納されたMMX探査機は大型ロケット発射場へと移動しました。 ここ数日の種子島は快晴です☀️ フェアリングについている丸いドアから #MMX が少しだけ見えます。 この姿を見れるのも、あとわずか。MMX メンバー一同全力で打上げ準備作業中です!! #H3F10 #MMXLIFTOFF #GOODLUCKMMX
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Vuoi saperne di più? Chiedi al nostro Hera Space Companion 👇 hera.esa.int/ @ESA_Hera
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Si è svolta entro i parametri richiesti la prima manovra di frenata di Hera, durata 93 minuti ed effettuata giovedì mattina; la prossima manovra di frenata è prevista per giovedì 22 ottobre. @ESA_Hera 👇
Hera’s initial 93-minute braking manoeuvre on Thursday morning is confirmed to have performed within required parameters; the follow-up braking manoeuvre is scheduled for Thursday 22 October. Want to know more? Ask our Hera Space Companion hera.esa.int/
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Hera’s initial 93-minute braking manoeuvre on Thursday morning is confirmed to have performed within required parameters; the follow-up braking manoeuvre is scheduled for Thursday 22 October. Want to know more? Ask our Hera Space Companion hera.esa.int/
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Hera’s initial 93-minute braking manoeuvre on Thursday morning is confirmed to have performed within required parameters; the follow-up braking manoeuvre is scheduled for Thursday 22 October. Want to know more? Ask our Hera Space Companion hera.esa.int/
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Join the Hera Asteroid Detectives during the school break at #ESTEC in 🇳🇱's visitor centre @Spaceexpo - and solve an asteroid mystery! This Hera-based interactive presentation is included in your main ticket space-expo.nl/en/agenda/herf…
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Hera imagery of Deimos gathered during last year's flyby is helping to guide MMX observations - godspeed!
📣Launch announcement The Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission is set to launch on a H3 rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center at 21:41 CEST on 19 October 2026 👉esa.int/Science_Exploration/… 1/4
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#ISAS の最寄り駅、JR横浜線淵野辺駅では、 相模原市の協力の元、10月20日に打上げを控えた #MMX を応援する装飾を行っています。 淵野辺駅南口の階段や改札前の自由通路に打上げポスターを掲示。14日からは自由通路にMMXの大型看板を掲示します。応援よろしくお願いします! #MMXLIFTOFF #GOODLUCKMMX
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NEWS 🚨: ESA's Hera spacecraft has captured its first image (left) of its target asteroid Didymos It was taken from ~147,000 miles away and will arrive officially in November Hera will study how NASA's 2022 DART crash changed the asteroid's moon, to test whether hitting an asteroid can protect Earth
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This is a project to be followed, an adventure worth of the best sci-fi movies. I have always admired @JAXA_en ‘s boldness (Hayabusa-2 still remains my favorite mission)
[The power behind #MMX!] The development of the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX: @mmx_jaxa_en) mission was undertaken not only by the MMX Project Team at JAXA ISAS, but the ALL-JAXA system! Let’s take a look at the activities of each division. #MMXLIFTOFF: 10.20 at 04:41:03 JST 🚀
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"Are we there yet?"🛰️ 🪨 "NEARLY!" 📽️Watch the latest episode of our animated Incredible Adventure of Hera series: The Space Detectives Arrive! esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Video…
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Happy birthday, Hera! 🎂🛰️ ESA's Hera captured its first glimpse of the binary asteroid Didymos & Dimorphos. Hera will study the impact from the NASA DART mission on Dimorphos to study planetary defence, with JAXA’s #TIRI thermal infrared camera helping reveal surface properties
🚨🚨🚨On its second birthday in space, ESA's Hera mission for planetary defence has spotted its asteroid destination for the first time, from an approximate distance of 236 500 km away! The Didymos system is actually two asteroids, seen as a single pixel for now esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Image…
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