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Europe's Hera probe to launch Oct. 7 to inspect asteroid NASA smacked in 2022

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Europe 's Hera mission to study the aftermath of NASA 's planetary defense test on asteroid Dimorphos .

The main Hera spacecraft and its two partner cubesats, named Milani and Juventas , are set to launch on Oct. 7 at 10:52 a.m. EDT ( 1452 GMT ) from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida .

The mission is expected to gather at least six months of close-up observations of the asteroid, which is about the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt .

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