{"id":692444,"date":"2021-06-04T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=692444"},"modified":"2021-06-04T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T13:30:00","slug":"pilote-timelapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=692444","title":{"rendered":"Pilote timelapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Pilote_timelapse_card_full.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Timelapse video made during ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet\u2019s second mission to the International Space Station, \u201cAlpha\u201d. The camera is setup to take pictures at intervals of two a second, and the pictures are then edited into this video that plays at 25 pictures a second. The video is around 12 times faster than real speed.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas and NASA astronaut Megan MacArthur are shown in Europe\u2019s Columbus laboratory running sessions on the Pilote experiment proposed by France\u2019s space agency CNES. Continuing French neuroscience experiments started on the Russian space station Mir, the Pilote experiment evaluates a new way of providing tactile and visual feedback to astronauts when operating robots. Using a virtual reality headset and a haptic joystick can recreate the feeling of pressure and touch when tele-operating a robotic arm. The results from Pilote will improve the work space on the International Space Station and future spacecraft for lunar and martian missions, where astronauts in orbit could operate rovers on the surface.<\/p>\n<p>Over 200 experiments are planned during Thomas\u2019 time in space, with 40 European ones and 12 new experiments led by the French space agency CNES.<\/p>\n<p>Latest updates on the Alpha mission can be found via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/esaspaceflight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">@esaspaceflight<\/a> on Twitter, with more details on ESA\u2019s exploration blog via <a href=\"https:\/\/thomaspesquet.esa.int\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">thomaspesquet.esa.int<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Background information on the Alpha mission is available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/MissionAlpha\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">www.esa.int\/MissionAlpha<\/a> with a brochure at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/AlphaBrochure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">www.esa.int\/AlphaBrochure<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2021\/06\/Pilote_timelapse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Pilote timelapse<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timelapse video made during ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet\u2019s second mission to the International Space Station, \u201cAlpha\u201d. The camera is setup to take pictures at intervals of two a second, and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":692445,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692444","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=692444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/692445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=692444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=692444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=692444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}