{"id":493996,"date":"2018-06-25T04:35:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T08:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=f01588635bc1bdda0697d8a6561ca8da"},"modified":"2018-06-25T04:35:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T08:35:00","slug":"earths-first-mission-to-a-binary-asteroid-for-planetary-defence-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=493996","title":{"rendered":"Earth\u2019s first mission to a binary asteroid, for planetary defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2018\/06\/hera_measures_didymoon_s_size_shape_and_mass\/17563521-1-eng-GB\/Hera_measures_Didymoon_s_size_shape_and_mass_small.gif\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nPlanning for humankind\u2019s first mission to a binary asteroid system has entered its next engineering phase. ESA\u2019s proposed Hera mission would also be Europe\u2019s contribution to an ambitious planetary defence experiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2018\/06\/hera_measures_didymoon_s_size_shape_and_mass\/17563521-1-eng-GB\/Hera_measures_Didymoon_s_size_shape_and_mass_small.gif\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nPlanning for humankind&rsquo;s first mission to a binary asteroid system has entered its next engineering phase. ESA&rsquo;s proposed Hera mission would also be Europe&rsquo;s contribution to an ambitious planetary defence experiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493996","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\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=493996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493997,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493996\/revisions\/493997"}],"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=493996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=493996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=493996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}