{"id":110591,"date":"2020-07-29T07:42:56","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T14:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/airbus-to-build-first-interplanetary-cargo-ship"},"modified":"2020-07-29T07:42:56","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T14:42:56","slug":"airbus-to-build-first-interplanetary-cargo-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/airbus-to-build-first-interplanetary-cargo-ship","title":{"rendered":"Airbus to build \u2018first interplanetary cargo ship\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/airbus-to-build-first-interplanetary-cargo-ship2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not just twice as difficult as any typical Mars mission; it\u2019s twice squared \u2014 when you think about the complexity involved,\u201d said Dr David Parker, the director of human and robotic exploration at the European Space Agency (Esa).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd this satellite that Airbus will build \u2014 I like to call it \u2018the first interplanetary cargo ship\u2019, because that\u2019s what it will be doing. It\u2019s designed to carry cargo between Mars and Earth,\u201d he told BBC News.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Parker announced the European aerospace company\u2019s role in the Earth Return Orbiter (ERO) at a NASA-Esa briefing with reporters just ahead of Thursday\u2019s launch of the Perseverance robot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis is not just twice as difficult as any typical Mars mission; it\u2019s twice squared \u2014 when you think about the complexity involved,\u201d said Dr David Parker, the director of human and robotic exploration at the European Space Agency (Esa). \u201cAnd this satellite that Airbus will build \u2014 I like to call it \u2018the first [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}