{"id":736128,"date":"2022-09-26T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=736128"},"modified":"2022-09-26T19:35:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T23:35:00","slug":"hera-team-congratulates-nasa-asteroid-impactors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=736128","title":{"rendered":"Hera team congratulates NASA asteroid impactors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/DART_s_moment_of_impact_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"DART's moment of impact\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ESA\u2019s Hera mission team congratulates their counterparts in <a href=\"https:\/\/dart.jhuapl.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NASA\u2019s DART mission team<\/a> for their historic impact with the Dimorphos asteroid. Moving at 6.1 km per second, the car-sized Double Asteroid Redirect Test spacecraft struck the 160-m diameter asteroid at 01:15 CEST (00:15 BST) in the early hours of Tuesday morning, in humankind\u2019s first test of the \u2018kinetic impactor\u2019 method of planetary defence.<\/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\/Hera_team_congratulates_NASA_asteroid_impactors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hera team congratulates NASA asteroid impactors<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESA\u2019s Hera mission team congratulates their counterparts in NASA\u2019s DART mission team for their historic impact with the Dimorphos asteroid. Moving at 6.1 km per second, the car-sized Double Asteroid&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":736129,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736128","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\/736128","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=736128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/736129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=736128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=736128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=736128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}