{"id":227910,"date":"2015-04-15T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T13:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"7f737a8d0fe484f6221a5d0eb7c13c8d"},"modified":"2015-04-15T09:12:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T13:12:00","slug":"aims-asteroid-lander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=227910","title":{"rendered":"AIM&#8217;s asteroid lander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2015\/04\/aim_s_asteroid_lander\/15349368-1-eng-GB\/AIM_s_asteroid_lander_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nEngineers recently began the preliminary design of ESA\u2019s Asteroid Impact Mission mission concept and are including a lander. If the mission comes to fruition touchdown would occur in late 2022.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe asteroid lander is under study by the DLR German Aerospace Center, and is known as Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout-2, or Mascot-2. Mascot-1 is already in flight, carried on Japan\u2019s Hayabusa-2 mission, which was launched on 3 December 2014 to land on its target asteroid during 2018.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTo find out more about the AIM mission concept, visit its new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/Asteroid_Impact_Mission\">website<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/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\/images\/2015\/04\/aim_s_asteroid_lander\/15349368-1-eng-GB\/AIM_s_asteroid_lander_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nEngineers recently began the preliminary design of ESA\u2019s Asteroid Impact Mission mission concept and are including a lander. If the mission comes to fruition touchdown would occur in late 2022.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe asteroid lander is under study by the DLR German Aerospace Center, and is known as Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout-2, or Mascot-2. Mascot-1 is already in flight, carried on Japan\u2019s Hayabusa-2 mission, which was launched on 3 December 2014 to land on its target asteroid during 2018.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTo find out more about the AIM mission concept, visit its new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/Asteroid_Impact_Mission\">website<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/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-227910","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\/227910","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=227910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227910\/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=227910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}