{"id":730959,"date":"2022-07-28T10:02:29","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T14:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=730959"},"modified":"2022-07-28T10:02:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T14:02:29","slug":"readying-spacecraft-to-surf-venus-atmosphere-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=730959","title":{"rendered":"Readying spacecraft to surf Venus&#039; atmosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESA&#8217;s EnVision mission to Venus will perform optical, spectral and radar mapping of Earth&#8217;s sister planet. But before getting down to work the van-sized spacecraft needs to &#8220;aerobrake&#8221;\u2014lowering its orbit with thousands of passages through the planet&#8217;s 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.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-07-readying-spacecraft-surf-venus-atmosphere.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Readying spacecraft to surf Venus&#8217; atmosphere<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESA&#8217;s EnVision mission to Venus will perform optical, spectral and radar mapping of Earth&#8217;s sister planet. But before getting down to work the van-sized spacecraft needs to &#8220;aerobrake&#8221;\u2014lowering its orbit&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730959","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=730959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730959\/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=730959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=730959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=730959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}