{"id":730935,"date":"2022-07-28T03:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=730935"},"modified":"2022-07-28T03:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T07:30:00","slug":"readying-spacecraft-to-surf-venus-atmosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=730935","title":{"rendered":"Readying spacecraft to surf Venus\u2019 atmosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"EnVision aerobraking in Venus atmosphere\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ESA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/EnVision_factsheet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">EnVision<\/a> mission to Venus\u00a0will perform optical, spectral and radar mapping of Earth\u2019s sister planet. But before getting down to work the van-sized spacecraft needs to \u2018aerobrake\u2019 \u2013 lowering its orbit with thousands of passages through the planet\u2019s hot, thick atmosphere for up to two years. A unique ESA facility is currently testing candidate spacecraft materials to check they can safely withstand this challenging process of atmospheric surfing.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/one.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/Readying_spacecraft_to_surf_Venus_atmosphere\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Readying spacecraft to surf Venus\u2019 atmosphere<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESA\u2019s EnVision mission to Venus\u00a0will perform optical, spectral and radar mapping of Earth\u2019s sister planet. But before getting down to work the van-sized spacecraft needs to \u2018aerobrake\u2019 \u2013 lowering its&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730935","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\/730935","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=730935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=730935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=730935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=730935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}