{"id":666891,"date":"2020-09-15T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=666891"},"modified":"2020-09-15T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T13:00:00","slug":"industry-gets-working-on-europes-hera-planetary-defence-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=666891","title":{"rendered":"Industry gets working on Europe\u2019s Hera planetary defence mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Hera_uses_infrared_to_scan_impact_crater_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Infrared imaging of the impact crater\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today ESA awarded a\u00a0\u20ac129.4 million\u00a0contract covering the detailed design, manufacturing and testing of Hera, the Agency\u2019s first mission for planetary defence. This ambitious mission will be Europe\u2019s contribution to an international asteroid deflection effort, set to perform sustained exploration of a double asteroid system.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Safety_Security\/Hera\/Industry_gets_working_on_Europe_s_Hera_planetary_defence_mission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Industry gets working on Europe\u2019s Hera planetary defence mission<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today ESA awarded a\u00a0\u20ac129.4 million\u00a0contract covering the detailed design, manufacturing and testing of Hera, the Agency\u2019s first mission for planetary defence. This ambitious mission will be Europe\u2019s contribution to an&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":666892,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666891","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\/666891","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=666891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/666892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=666891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=666891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=666891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}