{"id":770033,"date":"2023-10-20T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=770033"},"modified":"2023-10-20T10:40:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:40:00","slug":"hera-asteroid-mission-goes-on-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=770033","title":{"rendered":"Hera asteroid mission goes on trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n\tVideo:<br \/>\n\t\t\t00:04:41<\/p>\n<p>At some point, statistically speaking, a large asteroid will impact Earth. Whether that\u2019s tomorrow, in ten years, or a problem for our ancestors, ESA is getting prepared.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the world\u2019s first test of asteroid deflection, ESA\u2019s Hera mission will perform a detailed post-impact survey of Dimorphos \u2013 the 160-metre asteroid struck, and successfully deflected, by NASA\u2019s DART spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>Hera will soon study the aftermath. Launching in October 2024, Hera will turn this grand-scale experiment into a well-understood and hopefully repeatable planetary defence technique.<\/p>\n<p>But before Hera and its two CubeSats fly, they\u2019re rigorously tested at ESA\u2019s ESTEC test centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. From the force and noise of the rocket take-off to the sustained vacuum and temperature extremes of deep space, all aspects of Hera\u2019s functioning are checked before they begin their journey, alone 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\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2023\/10\/Hera_asteroid_mission_goes_on_trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hera asteroid mission goes on trial<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space Engineering &amp; Technology&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video: 00:04:41 At some point, statistically speaking, a large asteroid will impact Earth. Whether that\u2019s tomorrow, in ten years, or a problem for our ancestors, ESA is getting prepared. As&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-770033","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\/770033","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=770033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770033\/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=770033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=770033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=770033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}