Introduction The cosine* HyperScout-H (HS-H) instrument will fly aboard the ESA/Hera spacecraft. This mission [1], focused on planetary defense, aims to thoroughly characterize the (65803) Didymos near-Earth binary asteroid following the impact of the NASA/DART mission. It will launch in October 2024 and it is expected to reach the target by

Introduction Hera is ESA's first planetary defense mission designed to characterize the binary near-Earth asteroid (65803) Didymos [1]. Its secondary component, Dimorphos, was the target of the large-scale controlled collision with the NASA/DART spacecraft in September 2022 [2]. Thus, the Hera mission will provide an unprecedented opportunity to

Most current and planned near-Earth objects (NEO) surveys are made with ground-based telescopes and carried out in the visible wavelength range. However, this approach has some limitations, such as (1) weather dependency, (2) only a portion of the night sky is visible from any given location on Earth, (3) NEOs are difficult to detect at low