{"id":727297,"date":"2022-06-20T04:47:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T08:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=727297"},"modified":"2022-06-20T04:47:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T08:47:00","slug":"space-tech-to-be-put-to-test-on-asia-bound-fiat-panda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=727297","title":{"rendered":"Space tech to be put to test on Asia-bound Fiat Panda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Fiat_Panda_in_Sahara_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Fiat Panda in Sahara\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two ESA engineers are offering a unique testbed for novel space technology: a second-hand, two-decade-old Fiat Panda, set to be driven 16 000 km to compete in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theadventurists.com\/adventures\/mongol-rally\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mongol Rally<\/a>\u00a0from Europe to the Mongolian steppes during summer 2023. Having already taken part in the Panda Raid race to Morocco and back, the \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/space2ground.world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">space2ground<\/a>\u2019 team plans to perform on-board testing over the course of their epic Asiatic drive.<\/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\/Space_tech_to_be_put_to_test_on_Asia-bound_Fiat_Panda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Space tech to be put to test on Asia-bound Fiat Panda<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space Engineering &amp; Technology&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two ESA engineers are offering a unique testbed for novel space technology: a second-hand, two-decade-old Fiat Panda, set to be driven 16 000 km to compete in the Mongol Rally\u00a0from&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":727298,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-727297","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\/727297","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=727297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/727298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=727297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=727297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=727297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}