{"id":694686,"date":"2021-06-30T03:40:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T07:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=694686"},"modified":"2021-06-30T03:40:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T07:40:00","slug":"cubesat-named-for-pioneer-of-european-planetary-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=694686","title":{"rendered":"CubeSat named for pioneer of European planetary defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Milani_studies_asteroid_dust_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Milani studies asteroid dust\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As ESA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Safety_Security\/Hera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Hera mission<\/a> reaches the Didymos double asteroid system, it will not be there alone: it will also serve as mothership for Europe\u2019s first two \u2018CubeSats\u2019 into deep space. Juventas, performing subsurface radar sounding, is called after the daughter of Hera. The other, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Safety_Security\/Hera\/Milani_CubeSat_will_sift_asteroid_secrets_from_reflected_sunshine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">spectral surveyor Milani<\/a>, takes the name of the researcher who began Europe\u2019s asteroid risk monitoring system and came up with the original concept inspiring Hera and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/planetarydefense\/dart\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">NASA\u2019s DART<\/a> \u2013 a double spacecraft mission for planetary defence.<\/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\/CubeSat_named_for_pioneer_of_European_planetary_defence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">CubeSat named for pioneer of European planetary defence<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space Engineering &amp; Technology&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As ESA\u2019s Hera mission reaches the Didymos double asteroid system, it will not be there alone: it will also serve as mothership for Europe\u2019s first two \u2018CubeSats\u2019 into deep space.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":694687,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694686","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\/694686","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=694686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/694687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=694686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=694686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=694686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}