{"id":229894,"date":"2015-06-03T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T19:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"f903b71160e5f3dd1cd3082db9662a22"},"modified":"2015-06-03T15:34:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T19:34:00","slug":"haptics-2-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=229894","title":{"rendered":"Haptics-2 on Earth"},"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\/06\/haptics-2_on_earth\/15421351-1-eng-GB\/Haptics-2_on_Earth_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA&#8217;s head of the Telerobotics lab Andr\u00e9 Schiele waiting to perform the Haptics-2 experiment and the first historic space-to-ground handshake 3 June 2015.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the first-ever demonstration of space-to-ground remote control with live video and force feedback, NASA astronaut Terry Virts orbiting Earth on the International Space Station shook hands with ESA telerobotics specialist Andr\u00e9 Schiele in the Netherland.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTerry was testing a joystick that allows astronauts in space to \u2018feel\u2019 objects from hundreds of kilometres away. The joystick is a twin of the one on Earth and moving either makes its copy move in the same way.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe joystick provides feedback so both users can feel the force of the other pushing or pulling.<\/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\/06\/haptics-2_on_earth\/15421351-1-eng-GB\/Haptics-2_on_Earth_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA&#8217;s head of the Telerobotics lab Andr\u00e9 Schiele waiting to perform the Haptics-2 experiment and the first historic space-to-ground handshake 3 June 2015.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the first-ever demonstration of space-to-ground remote control with live video and force feedback, NASA astronaut Terry Virts orbiting Earth on the International Space Station shook hands with ESA telerobotics specialist Andr\u00e9 Schiele in the Netherland.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTerry was testing a joystick that allows astronauts in space to \u2018feel\u2019 objects from hundreds of kilometres away. The joystick is a twin of the one on Earth and moving either makes its copy move in the same way.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe joystick provides feedback so both users can feel the force of the other pushing or pulling.<\/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-229894","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\/229894","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=229894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229894\/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=229894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}