{"id":639047,"date":"2019-11-29T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=639047"},"modified":"2019-11-29T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T09:00:00","slug":"esas-hera-asteroid-mission-is-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=639047","title":{"rendered":"ESA\u2019s Hera asteroid mission is go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/ESA_s_Hera_asteroid_mission_is_go_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n\tVideo:<br \/>\n\t\t\t00:00:42<\/p>\n<p>Europe\u2019s space ministers gathered at <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/space19plus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Space19+<\/a> in Seville, Spain in November 2019 have approved ESA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Safety_Security\/Hera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Hera asteroid mission<\/a> for construction and launch, as part of the Agency&#8217;s broader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Safety_Security\/Hera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">planetary defence initiatives<\/a> that aim to protect European and world citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Hera will be humanity&#8217;s first-ever spacecraft to visit a double asteroid, the Didymos binary system. First, NASA will crash its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/planetarydefense\/dart\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">DART spacecraft<\/a> into the smaller asteroid &#8211; known as Didymoon &#8211; before ESA&#8217;s Hera comes in to map the resulting impact crater and measure the asteroid&#8217;s mass. Hera will carry two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Safety_Security\/Hera\/CubeSats_joining_Hera_mission_to_asteroid_system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">CubeSats<\/a> on board, which will be able to fly much closer to the asteroid&#8217;s surface, carrying out crucial scientific studies, before touching down. Hera&#8217;s up-close observations will turn asteroid deflection into a well-understood planetary defence technique.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2019\/11\/ESA_s_Hera_asteroid_mission_is_go\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ESA\u2019s Hera asteroid mission is go<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space Engineering &amp; Technology&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video: 00:00:42 Europe\u2019s space ministers gathered at Space19+ in Seville, Spain in November 2019 have approved ESA\u2019s Hera asteroid mission for construction and launch, as part of the Agency&#8217;s broader&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":639048,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639047","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\/639047","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=639047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/639048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=639047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=639047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=639047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}