Small-body mission · ESA (concept study)

AIM (concept)

ESA's Asteroid Impact Mission — the original European orbiter half of the AIDA collaboration, meant to observe the DART impact in real time. It was not funded in 2016, but its science was largely revived and reshaped as the Hera mission.

Concept / proposedOrbiter Mission Rendezvous Mission

Targets & sample

Also:The Didymos–Dimorphos system (planned)

Mission & science

Goals: Observe the DART impact in situ and characterise the target before and after.
Outcome: Not funded in 2016; its goals were revived as Hera.
Known limitations: A concept that was not built; superseded by Hera.

Knowledge connections

Member of groupOrbiter Mission
Member of groupRendezvous Mission

Sources

Facts on this topic will be cited from these primary and reference sources.

ESAEuropean Space Agency
European missions, observatories, and space science imagery.

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