{"id":614087,"date":"2019-05-02T09:19:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T13:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=614087"},"modified":"2019-05-02T09:19:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T13:19:00","slug":"heras-apex-cubesat-will-reveal-the-stuff-that-asteroids-are-made-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=614087","title":{"rendered":"Hera\u2019s APEX CubeSat will reveal the stuff that asteroids are made of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/APEX_CubeSat_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"88\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nFrom Earth asteroids appear as little more than dots in the sky. Europe\u2019s miniature APEX spacecraft will operate as a mineral prospector in deep space, surveying the make-up of its target asteroids down to individual boulders, helping prepare the way for future mining missions.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Safety\/Hera\/Hera_s_APEX_CubeSat_will_reveal_the_stuff_that_asteroids_are_made_of\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Hera\u2019s APEX CubeSat will reveal the stuff that asteroids are made of<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Earth asteroids appear as little more than dots in the sky. Europe\u2019s miniature APEX spacecraft will operate as a mineral prospector in deep space, surveying the make-up of its&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":614088,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614087","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\/614087","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=614087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/614088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=614087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=614087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=614087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}