Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket with the European Space Agency's Hera mission. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled to launch at 10:52 a.m. EDT (1452 UTC) on Monday, October 7. The first-stage booster making its 23rd flight will be intentionally expended during this mission. The mission is the 94th flight of a Falcon 9 rocket in 2024.

This mission is a follow up to NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, which successfully impacted the asteroid, Dimorphous, in 2022. DART lessened the orbital period of Dimorphous around its binary asteroid, Didymos, by about 32 minutes. These are the first two planetary defense missions for both space agencies.

Commentary will be provided by Spaceflight Now's Will Robinson-Smith, starting approximately an hour prior to liftoff.

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