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Cubesats on Europe's Hera asteroid mission phone home after Oct. 7 launch

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Two European cubesats have communicated that they are a-ok as they hurtle toward a binary asteroid system to check out the damage inflicted by NASA 's DART impactor in 2022 .

DART, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test , proved to be an unqualified success when it slammed into the 560-foot -wide ( 170 meters ) asteroid Dimorphos .

The European Space Agency's ( ESA ) Hera mission, which launched on Oct. 7 , is on its way to the asteroid system.

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