| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2024-10-07, 14:52 | |

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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2024-10-07, 10:52 (EDT) | | Launch site | SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA | | Booster | B1061-23 | | Landing | No | | Payload | Hera | | Customer | ESA | | Mission success criteria | Successful delivery of payload to Heliocentric Orbit |

Webcasts

| Stream | Link | |

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| | ESA | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O13Sp00Ltlw | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZwKh5geuNk | Spaceflight Now | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHoKhL56KZ0 | NASASpaceflight | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXsd0NvHVNI | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feQg1g0lI3g | SpaceX | https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1843298058693390642 | The Space Devs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-O0gpj0gUs

Stats

Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:

☑️ 25th consecutive successful Falcon 9 launch (if successful)

☑️ 46th launch from SLC-40 this year

☑️ 8 days, 21:34:39 turnaround for this pad

☑️ 94th Falcon 9 mission this year, 380th Falcon 9 mission overall

☑️ 95th SpaceX mission of 2024, 395th mission overall (excluding Starship flights)

☑️ 97th SpaceX launch this year, 408th SpaceX launch overall (including Starship flights)

Mission info

• SpaceX mission page
• NextSpaceflight mission page

Hera is a space mission of the European Space Agency whose objective is to validate the kinetic impact method to deflect a possible asteroid circulating on a collision course with the Earth. The satellite will study the results obtained by the DART impactor developed by NASA which successfully crashed into the Dimorphos asteroid in September 2022.