{"id":759210,"date":"2023-06-29T05:12:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T09:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=759210"},"modified":"2023-06-29T05:12:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T09:12:00","slug":"precision-deployer-to-put-heras-cubesats-into-asteroid-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=759210","title":{"rendered":"Precision deployer to put Hera\u2019s CubeSats into asteroid orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/After_the_crash_comes_Hera_card_full-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"After the crash comes Hera\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dutch firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.isispace.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ISISPACE<\/a> has manufactured more than 600 cereal-box sized \u2018CubeSat\u2019 satellites, plus nearly 200 deployment systems used to release them into orbit. Of all of these, the pair of Deep Space Deployers it has overseen for ESA\u2019s Hera asteroid mission for planetary defence have been by far the most challenging. The two systems need to keep their nanosatellite cargo alive and healthy, before releasing them on a precisely staged basis \u2013 at a velocity of just a few centimetres per second. Any faster and Hera\u2019s CubeSats would risk getting lost in space.<\/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\/Precision_deployer_to_put_Hera_s_CubeSats_into_asteroid_orbit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Precision deployer to put Hera\u2019s CubeSats into asteroid orbit<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space Engineering &amp; Technology&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dutch firm ISISPACE has manufactured more than 600 cereal-box sized \u2018CubeSat\u2019 satellites, plus nearly 200 deployment systems used to release them into orbit. Of all of these, the pair of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":759211,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-759210","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\/759210","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=759210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/759211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=759210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=759210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=759210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}