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On the stage talks about the current tests of Hera is on. We want to thank you for your attention and say good bye from the ESA Hera Live Event in Darmstadt. Mission updates around the evening will be published in our LC-29. Thank you and good bye. Clear skies.

Matthias Maurer leads the Moon training facility of DLR and ESA, opened in Cologne a few days ago. He is now on stage to speak about the training for the coming moon missions with Artemis 3 and beyond.

We had a successful launch of Hera, now new music on the stage. We will upload pictures from this event later this evening.

We are go for launch, please change now to the live coverage of the Hera Mission launch. LC-29

on stage we have talk about space weather.

He talks about his almost 7 hours space walk and his experience of unexpected meeting with space debris.

Matthias Maurer is on stage, another German astronaut, telling us about his experience, launching with the Falcon 9 rocket.

Now on stage, two people from Haus der Astronomie and the DLR (German Space Agency) explaining what Hera and Dart propose is and what asteroid defence means.

The music program is over and the pre-talks for the lunch have begun.

Since 2007, the ESA has a planetary defence office, to work on an asteroid defence system. This was first to expensive for ESA, but as NASA joint the work and costs have been split between both space agencies.

She speaks about Apophis, the asteroid that will pass Earth at it‘s closest approach on April 13, 2029. The Outer Space Office works with all space agencies around the world to protect Earth.

now a member of the UN Outer Space office is on the stage, telling us about the work at this office.

Hera is launching on a Flacon 9 rocket of Space X because Ariane 6 was delayed, which resulted in the need to switch to Space X.

Friday nights was always a special day. Astronauts have collected their favorite food for fridays and enjoyed the best dinner on friday evenings. On Saturday and Sunday it‘s cleaning day in space.

Thomas Reiter, German ESA astronaut, is on stage now and speaking about it‘s experiences in space.

the pre-program of the launch event today explains what asteroids are which impact events happened in the last billion years.

We are live at the ESA Event to the #HeraMission launch.

The launch of the Hera mission has been brought forward to 16:52 CEST today.

Welcome to our Live Coverage of the ESA Event for the Hera Mission launch from Darmstadt, Germany

Our live coverage will start Monday at 15:00 CEST here and on BlueSky.

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