{"id":234907,"date":"2015-10-05T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"bb91506e32607bd5fabf5becdd6c70fc"},"modified":"2015-10-05T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T22:00:00","slug":"aim-mission-navigation-camera-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=234907","title":{"rendered":"AIM mission navigation camera testing"},"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\/2015\/10\/aim_mission_navigation_camera_testing\/15633728-1-eng-GB\/AIM_mission_navigation_camera_testing_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"94\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nA practical test being performed during the 2015 ESTEC Open Day of the navigation camera planned to guide ESA\u2019s proposed Asteroid Impact Mission around its double-asteroid target.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMany of the thousands of visitors to ESA\u2019s technical heart in Noordwijk, the Netherlands on Sunday 4 October were able to see the simulation for themselves, set up by the Agency\u2019s Guidance, Navigation and Control section.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe red robotic arm seen left held the camera and moved it smoothly through three dimensions next to a spinning model of the Didymos asteroid system, destination of the Agency\u2019s candidate Asteroid Impact Mission (AIM).&nbsp; The experiment was performed in partnership with ESA\u2019s Automation and Robotics section, supplying the COMAU robotic arm.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe screen in the foreground depicted the camera\u2019s eye view as it gradually came closer to the main asteroid.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAIM is a candidate mission of opportunity currently undergoing preliminary design work, set to be presented to ESA\u2019s Council of Ministers in November 2016 for approval.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWith a planned launch window opening in October 2020, AIM would be humanity\u2019s first mission to a binary asteroid system, putting down a lander on the smaller asteroid of the pair and providing detailed before-and-after mapping as part of the larger Asteroid Impact &amp; Deflection Assessment mission.<\/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\/2015\/10\/aim_mission_navigation_camera_testing\/15633728-1-eng-GB\/AIM_mission_navigation_camera_testing_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"94\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nA practical test being performed during the 2015 ESTEC Open Day of the navigation camera planned to guide ESA\u2019s proposed Asteroid Impact Mission around its double-asteroid target.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMany of the thousands of visitors to ESA\u2019s technical heart in Noordwijk, the Netherlands on Sunday 4 October were able to see the simulation for themselves, set up by the Agency\u2019s Guidance, Navigation and Control section.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe red robotic arm seen left held the camera and moved it smoothly through three dimensions next to a spinning model of the Didymos asteroid system, destination of the Agency\u2019s candidate Asteroid Impact Mission (AIM).&nbsp; The experiment was performed in partnership with ESA\u2019s Automation and Robotics section, supplying the COMAU robotic arm.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe screen in the foreground depicted the camera\u2019s eye view as it gradually came closer to the main asteroid.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAIM is a candidate mission of opportunity currently undergoing preliminary design work, set to be presented to ESA\u2019s Council of Ministers in November 2016 for approval.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWith a planned launch window opening in October 2020, AIM would be humanity\u2019s first mission to a binary asteroid system, putting down a lander on the smaller asteroid of the pair and providing detailed before-and-after mapping as part of the larger Asteroid Impact &amp; Deflection Assessment mission.<\/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-234907","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\/234907","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=234907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234907\/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=234907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}