{"id":768936,"date":"2023-10-12T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=768936"},"modified":"2023-10-12T09:10:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T13:10:00","slug":"the-incredible-adventures-of-the-hera-mission-testing-times-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=768936","title":{"rendered":"The Incredible Adventures of the Hera mission \u2013 Testing times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n\tVideo:<br \/>\n\t\t\t00:03:42<\/p>\n<p>Meet\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Safety_Security\/Hera\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hera<\/a>, our very own asteroid detective. Together with two CubeSats \u2013 Milani the rock decoder and Juventas the radar visionary \u2013 Hera is off on an adventure to explore Didymos, a double asteroid system that is typical of the thousands that pose an impact risk to planet Earth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Do Hera and her CubeSats have the right stuff to explore space? Before launch they need to prove it, with a round of testing at the ESTEC Test Centre in the Netherlands \u2013 Europe\u2019s largest satellite test facility. Suitable for kids and adults alike, this episode of \u2018The Incredible Adventures of Hera\u2019 explains all the tests that Hera has to go through, using facilities that simulate every aspect of launch and spaceflight \u2013 from vibration to noise, temperature extremes and space-grade vacuum!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Sets\/The_Incredible_Adventures_of_the_Hera_mission\/(result_type)\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Watch the other episodes of\u00a0<i>The Incredible Adventures of the Hera Mission<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/one.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2023\/10\/The_Incredible_Adventures_of_the_Hera_mission_Testing_times\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Incredible Adventures of the Hera mission \u2013 Testing times<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video: 00:03:42 Meet\u00a0Hera, our very own asteroid detective. Together with two CubeSats \u2013 Milani the rock decoder and Juventas the radar visionary \u2013 Hera is off on an adventure to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-768936","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\/768936","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=768936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768936\/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=768936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=768936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=768936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}