{"id":803941,"date":"2026-10-07T08:57:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T13:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=803941"},"modified":"2026-10-07T08:57:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T13:57:31","slug":"the-incredible-adventures-of-the-hera-mission-the-space-detectives-arrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=803941","title":{"rendered":"The Incredible Adventures of the Hera mission \u2013 The space detectives arrive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"modal__tab-content--details\">\n<div class=\"modal__tab-description\">\n<p>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 explore Didymos, a double asteroid system that is typical of the thousands that pose an impact risk to planet Earth.<\/p>\n<p>After their two year cosmic roadtrip, Hera and its little CubeSat companions have finally arrived at Didymos and Dimorphos \u2013 the very first Solar System object to have had its orbit shifted by human action. \u00a0Suitable for kids and adults alike, this episode of \u2018The Incredible Adventures of the Hera mission\u2019\u00a0explains what ESA\u2019s asteroid detective and its CubeSat assistants will be up to once they arrive, and precisely how they are going to say goodbye to each other \u2013 letting the CubeSats begin their close-up exam of this historic space rock.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the other episodes of\u00a0<i>The Incredible Adventures of the Hera Mission<\/i><\/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=\"The space detectives arrive\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/roKSIWtGMVU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/textarea><\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2026\/10\/The_Incredible_Adventures_of_the_Hera_mission_The_space_detectives_arrive?rand=771654\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 explore Didymos,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":803942,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-803941","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\/803941","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=803941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/803942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=803941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=803941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=803941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}