{"id":772385,"date":"2023-11-12T05:11:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T09:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=772385"},"modified":"2023-11-12T05:11:55","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T09:11:55","slug":"hera-asteroid-mission-goes-on-trial-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=772385","title":{"rendered":"Hera asteroid mission goes on trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"modal__tab-content--details\">\n<div class=\"modal__tab-description\">\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 descendants, 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><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<label style=\"display: block; font-size: 0.9em; color: #8197A6; margin: 3rem 0 -1rem 0;\">Embed code<\/label><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<textarea rows=\"4\" cols=\"60\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hera asteroid mission goes on trial\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2wcsU-YiOnw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/textarea><\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2023\/10\/Hera_asteroid_mission_goes_on_trial?rand=772185\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At some point, statistically speaking, a large asteroid will impact Earth. Whether that\u2019s tomorrow, in ten years, or a problem for our descendants, ESA is getting prepared. As part of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":772386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772385","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\/772385","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=772385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/772386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=772385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=772385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=772385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}