{"id":636935,"date":"2019-11-08T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=636935"},"modified":"2019-11-08T09:45:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T13:45:00","slug":"how-we-heat-proofed-esas-mercury-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=636935","title":{"rendered":"How we heat-proofed ESA\u2019s Mercury mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Thinking_up_a_heat-proofed_mission_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Thinking up a heat-proofed mission\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The BepiColombo mission to Mercury, closest planet to the Sun is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cosmos.esa.int\/web\/bepicolombo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">currently millions of kilometres from Earth in deep space<\/a>, more than a year into its seven year journey. If you could see it, the spacecraft would be shining brightly \u2013 just one of numerous design features protecting it from the most hostile conditions any ESA mission has ever faced.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/How_we_heat-proofed_ESA_s_Mercury_mission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">How we heat-proofed ESA\u2019s Mercury mission<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space Engineering &amp; Technology&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BepiColombo mission to Mercury, closest planet to the Sun is currently millions of kilometres from Earth in deep space, more than a year into its seven year journey. If&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":636936,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636935","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\/636935","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=636935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/636936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=636935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=636935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=636935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}