{"id":614746,"date":"2019-05-02T09:19:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T13:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=6583a698c23f03c2f7d0f6cf535940b3"},"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-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=614746","title":{"rendered":"Hera\u2019s APEX CubeSat will reveal the stuff that asteroids are made of"},"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\/2019\/05\/apex_cubesat\/19371801-2-eng-GB\/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.<\/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 target asteroids down to individual boulders, helping prep&#8230;<\/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-614746","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\/614746","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=614746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":614747,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614746\/revisions\/614747"}],"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=614746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=614746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=614746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}