Launch Details
SpaceX Falcon 9 Hera
Oct 07, 2024 Space Launch Complex 40 • Cape Canaveral Space Force StationAdd a rocket launch to your day! Viewing of the SpaceX Falcon 9 Hera launch is included with admission.
Atlantis North Lawn
Located to the left when approaching Space Shuttle Atlantis®
Included with admission
- See the rocket once it clears the tree line
- Approximately 6.7 miles / 10.8 kilometers from the launch pad
- Viewing area opens at 9:00 AM
- Launch audio, video, and commentary by a space-expert communicator available
Banana Creek Launch Viewing Area
Included with admission
- Accessible via the Kennedy Space Center Bus Tour on a first-come, first-served basis
- Bus boarding begins at 8:30 AM in the bus tour loading area
- See the rocket leave the launch pad
- Approximately 6.2 miles / 10 kilometers from the launch pad
- Viewing area opens at 9:00 AM
NET Oct 7, 2024 | SpaceX Falcon 9 Hera
MISSION DETAILS:
- Launch Provider: SpaceX
- Rocket Type: Falcon 9 | Block 5
- Launch Pad: Space Launch Complex 40
As part of the world’s first test of asteroid deflection, Hera will perform a detailed post-impact survey of the target asteroid, Dimorphos – the orbiting moonlet of a binary asteroid system known as Didymos. Now that NASA’s DART mission has impacted the moonlet, Hera will turn the grand-scale experiment into a well-understood and repeatable planetary defence technique. Demonstrating new technologies from autonomous navigation around an asteroid to low gravity proximity operations, Hera will be humankind’s first probe to rendezvous with a binary asteroid system and Europe’s flagship Planetary Defender.