{"id":733909,"date":"2022-09-01T03:35:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T07:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=733909"},"modified":"2022-09-01T03:35:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T07:35:00","slug":"after-nasas-asteroid-impact-esas-hera-comes-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=733909","title":{"rendered":"After NASA\u2019s asteroid impact, ESA\u2019s Hera comes next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/DART_impacting_Dimorphos_card_full.gif\" alt=\"DART impacting Dimorphos\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This month NASA\u2019s DART spacecraft will collide with the smaller of the two Didymos asteroids in deep space, attempting to shift its orbit in what will be humankind\u2019s first test of the \u2018kinetic impactor\u2019 planetary defence technique. Meanwhile, down on the ground, ESA\u2019s follow-on mission to Didymos has reached its own crucial milestone.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Space_Safety\/Hera\/After_NASA_s_asteroid_impact_ESA_s_Hera_comes_next\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">After NASA\u2019s asteroid impact, ESA\u2019s Hera comes next<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month NASA\u2019s DART spacecraft will collide with the smaller of the two Didymos asteroids in deep space, attempting to shift its orbit in what will be humankind\u2019s first test&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":733910,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733909","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\/733909","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=733909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/733910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=733909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=733909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=733909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}