{"id":790168,"date":"2024-10-10T10:15:53","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T15:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=790168"},"modified":"2024-10-10T10:15:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T15:15:53","slug":"why-are-we-going-back-to-this-asteroid-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=790168","title":{"rendered":"Why are we going back to this asteroid?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n\tVideo:<br \/>\n\t\t\t00:11:35<\/p>\n<p>Hera, ESA\u2019s first planetary defence mission, is headed to space.<\/p>\n<p>Hera will fly to a unique target among the 1.3 million known asteroids of our Solar System \u2013 the first body to have had its orbit shifted by human action \u2013 to probe lingering unknowns related to its deflection.<\/p>\n<p>Hera is scheduled for launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, USA, today, Monday 7 October, at 16:52 CEST \/ 15:52 BST.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2024\/10\/Why_are_we_going_back_to_this_asteroid?rand=772185\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video: 00:11:35 Hera, ESA\u2019s first planetary defence mission, is headed to space. Hera will fly to a unique target among the 1.3 million known asteroids of our Solar System \u2013&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":789986,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790168","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\/790168","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=790168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/789986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=790168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=790168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=790168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}