{"id":675676,"date":"2020-12-11T03:58:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T07:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=675676"},"modified":"2020-12-11T03:58:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T07:58:00","slug":"ireland-helping-esas-hera-asteroid-mission-find-its-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=675676","title":{"rendered":"Ireland helping ESA\u2019s Hera asteroid mission find its way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Hera_leaving_Earth_card_full.gif\" alt=\"Hera leaving Earth\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The very first sensor to be used by ESA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Safety_Security\/Hera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Hera asteroid mission for planetary defence<\/a> is currently being manufactured in Ireland. A gyroscope unit manufactured by Dublin-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.innalabs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">InnaLabs<\/a> will track the spacecraft\u2019s spin rate as it tumbles away from its Ariane 6 launcher following its 2024 liftoff, allowing it to safely orient its solar panels to the Sun and come to life.<\/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\/Ireland_helping_ESA_s_Hera_asteroid_mission_find_its_way\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Ireland helping ESA\u2019s Hera asteroid mission find its way<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space Engineering &amp; Technology&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The very first sensor to be used by ESA\u2019s Hera asteroid mission for planetary defence is currently being manufactured in Ireland. A gyroscope unit manufactured by Dublin-based InnaLabs will track&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":675677,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675676","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\/675676","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=675676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/675677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=675676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=675676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=675676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}