BERLIN, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- The German space company OHB was awarded a contract of 129.4 million euros (153.5 million U.S. dollars) by the European Space Agency (ESA) on Tuesday for design, construction and testing of Hera, the ESA's first planetary defense mission.
"Dangers from outer space are real," said OHB CEO Marco Fuchs in a statement on Tuesday. There were "millions of boulders there that could wipe out life on the earth in the event of a collision."
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