{"id":735163,"date":"2022-09-15T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=735163"},"modified":"2022-09-15T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T14:00:00","slug":"media-briefing-europe-takes-part-in-historic-asteroid-impact-demonstration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=735163","title":{"rendered":"Media Briefing: Europe takes part in historic asteroid impact demonstration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Media_Briefing_Europe_takes_part_in_historic_asteroid_impact_demonstration_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n\tVideo:<br \/>\n\t\t\t01:04:23<\/p>\n<p>On September 27 at 01:14 CEST, NASA\u2019s DART (for \u2018Double Asteroid Redirection Test\u2019) mission is lined up to collide with a body called Dimorphos \u2013 a 160-m diameter \u2018moonlet\u2019 of a larger asteroid called Didymos \u2013 to try and measurably shift its orbit. In this media briefing, hear more about Europe\u2019s contribution to the DART mission, and learn of ESA\u2019s own mission with a close-up survey of Dimorphos, conducted by a spacecraft called HERA. The HERA mission is planned for launch in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2022\/09\/Media_Briefing_Europe_takes_part_in_historic_asteroid_impact_demonstration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Media Briefing: Europe takes part in historic asteroid impact demonstration<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video: 01:04:23 On September 27 at 01:14 CEST, NASA\u2019s DART (for \u2018Double Asteroid Redirection Test\u2019) mission is lined up to collide with a body called Dimorphos \u2013 a 160-m diameter&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":735164,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735163","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\/735163","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=735163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/735164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=735163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=735163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=735163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}