Hera is a planetary defense mission under development in the Space Safety and Security
Program of the European Space Agency for launch in 2024 October. It will rendezvous in …

Small bodies are among the best tracers of our Solar System's history. A large number of
space missions to small bodies (past and future) offer a unique opportunity to use these …

The bearing capacity-the ability of a surface to support applied loads-is an important
parameter for understanding and predicting the response of a surface. Previous work has …

Abstract The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft will impact into the
asteroid Dimorphos on 2022 September 26 as a test of the kinetic impactor technique for …

We use a novel approach to model the entire cratering process resulting from impacts on
small, weak asteroids that uses shock physics code calculations directly. We found that …

Images collected during NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission provide
the first resolved views of the Didymos binary asteroid system. These images reveal that the …

Abstract The NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission is a planetary defense-
driven test of a kinetic impactor on Dimorphos, the satellite of the binary asteroid 65803 …

Small asteroids are often considered to be rubble-pile objects, and such asteroids may be
the most likely type of Near Earth Objects (NEOs) to pose a threat to Earth. However, impact …

Asteroid interiors play a key role in our understanding of asteroid formation and evolution.
As no direct interior probing has been done yet, characterisation of asteroids' interiors relies …

Didymos is a binary near-Earth asteroid. It is the target of the DART and HERA space
missions. The primary body, Didymos, rotates close to the spin at which it is expected to …