The first lines of defence against threats from impacts of asteroidal bodies on Earth is detecting these bodies, knowing what they look like and where they are going. The field of planetary defence has developed enormously in recent decades.

During the first part of this webinar session the documentary film Collisions: Asteroid Hunters was narrow casted, due to copyright, this was not recorded. More information about the film can be found here: https://www.francetvpro.fr/contenu-de-presse/68469549

02:40 Richard Moissl, Planetary Defence Officer at ESA NEOCC presents the activities of the Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre at ESA.

25:36 Patrick Michel, planetary scientist and Principle Investigator for the ESA Hera mission talks about Hera and how it will explore the Didymos binary system as part of the Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment (AIDA) collaboration.

47:16 Q&A

Relevant links:

ESA NEOCC: https://neo.ssa.esa.int ESA Hera: https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Hera/Hera AI of Hera: https://www.heramission.space