{"id":669583,"date":"2020-10-12T04:56:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T08:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=669583"},"modified":"2020-10-12T04:56:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T08:56:00","slug":"esas-force-feedback-rover-controlled-from-a-nation-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=669583","title":{"rendered":"ESA\u2019s force-feedback rover controlled from a nation away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Interact_rover_picking_up_geological_sample_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Interact rover picking up geological sample\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A controller in Germany operated ESA\u2019s gripper-equipped Interact rover around a simulated moonscape at the Agency\u2019s technical heart in the Netherlands, to practice retrieving geological samples. At the same time a smaller Germany-based rover interacted with ESA\u2019s rover as if together at the same site \u2013 in a dress rehearsal for a robotic test campaign to the Moon-like volcanic slopes of Mount Etna, scheduled for next year.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/ESA_s_force-feedback_rover_controlled_from_a_nation_away\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ESA\u2019s force-feedback rover controlled from a nation away<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A controller in Germany operated ESA\u2019s gripper-equipped Interact rover around a simulated moonscape at the Agency\u2019s technical heart in the Netherlands, to practice retrieving geological samples. At the same time&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":669584,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669583","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\/669583","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=669583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/669584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=669583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=669583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=669583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}