{"id":222009,"date":"2014-11-06T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"ace0715fe8da6a7a106bddbd67376197"},"modified":"2014-11-06T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T23:00:00","slug":"demonstrating-rosettas-philae-lander-on-the-space-station-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=222009","title":{"rendered":"Demonstrating Rosetta\u2019s Philae lander on the Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2014\/11\/demonstrating_rosetta_s_philae_lander_on_the_space_station\/15024836-1-eng-GB\/Demonstrating_Rosetta_s_Philae_lander_on_the_Space_Station_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Alexander Gerst performs a demonstration of how ESA\u2019s Rosetta mission will attempt to put a lander, called \u2018Philae\u2019 on the surface of comet 67P\/Churyumov\u2013Gerasimenko.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlexander narrates the story of the Rosetta mission and performs a demonstration that visualises the difficulties of landing on an object that has little gravitational pull. Using the weightless environment of the Space Station, Alexander attempts to land \u2018Philae\u2019 (an ear plug) onto the surface of the \u2018comet\u2019 (an inactive SPHERES robot) with increasing levels of difficulty: a rotating comet that is not moving to one that is both rotating and moving.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis video is one of the six experiments and demonstrations in the Flying Classroom, Alexander will use small items to demonstrate several principles of physics in microgravity to students aged 10\u201317 years.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Rosetta mission\u2019s lander, Philae, will be deployed on 12&nbsp;November at 08:35&nbsp;GMT\/09:35 CET from a distance of 22.5 km from the centre of the comet. It will land about seven hours later, with confirmation expected to arrive at Earth at around 16:00&nbsp;GMT\/17:00 CET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2014\/11\/demonstrating_rosetta_s_philae_lander_on_the_space_station\/15024836-1-eng-GB\/Demonstrating_Rosetta_s_Philae_lander_on_the_Space_Station_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Alexander Gerst performs a demonstration of how ESA\u2019s Rosetta mission will attempt to put a lander, called \u2018Philae\u2019 on the surface of comet 67P\/Churyumov\u2013Gerasimenko.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlexander narrates the story of the Rosetta mission and performs a demonstration that visualises the difficulties of landing on an object that has little gravitational pull. Using the weightless environment of the Space Station, Alexander attempts to land \u2018Philae\u2019 (an ear plug) onto the surface of the \u2018comet\u2019 (an inactive SPHERES robot) with increasing levels of difficulty: a rotating comet that is not moving to one that is both rotating and moving.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis video is one of the six experiments and demonstrations in the Flying Classroom, Alexander will use small items to demonstrate several principles of physics in microgravity to students aged 10\u201317 years.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Rosetta mission\u2019s lander, Philae, will be deployed on 12&nbsp;November at 08:35&nbsp;GMT\/09:35 CET from a distance of 22.5 km from the centre of the comet. It will land about seven hours later, with confirmation expected to arrive at Earth at around 16:00&nbsp;GMT\/17:00 CET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}