Attaining the PeV frontier of the cosmic ray spectrum in space with HERD

The High Energy cosmic-Radiation Detection facility (HERD) is a calorimetric experiment planned to be launched in 2027. It will operational for at least 10 years on board the China Space Station. With HERD we measure energy flux of cosmic protons and heavier nuclei from 30 GeV up to, first time space, few PeV. We search signatures annihilation decay products dark matter spectrum electrons gamma rays 100 TeV. A wide field view monitoring gamma-ray full-sky MeV also performed. five subdetectors, calorimeter (CALO), scintillating fiber tracker (FIT), plastic scintillator detector (PSD), silicon charge (SCD) transition radiation (TRD), are currently under development. design, prospects expected performance HERD, as well its contribution multimessenger astronomy presented this contribution.