{"id":197463,"date":"2024-10-11T17:23:58","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T22:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/spacex-launches-hera-planetary-defense-mission-narrowly-escaping-hurricane-milton"},"modified":"2024-10-11T17:23:58","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T22:23:58","slug":"spacex-launches-hera-planetary-defense-mission-narrowly-escaping-hurricane-milton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/spacex-launches-hera-planetary-defense-mission-narrowly-escaping-hurricane-milton","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Launches Hera Planetary Defense Mission, Narrowly Escaping Hurricane Milton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-launches-hera-planetary-defense-mission-narrowly-escaping-hurricane-milton2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX undertook a planetary defense mission on behalf of the European Space Agency (ESA) on Monday, aiming to provide scientists with tools to prevent future catastrophic cosmic impacts.<\/p>\n<p>The ESA\u2019s Hera planetary defense mission builds on NASA\u2019s 2022 Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission and will analyze its effects, allowing scientists and engineers to gain a more comprehensive understanding for use in real-world emergencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX undertook a planetary defense mission on behalf of the European Space Agency (ESA) on Monday, aiming to provide scientists with tools to prevent future catastrophic cosmic impacts. The ESA\u2019s Hera planetary defense mission builds on NASA\u2019s 2022 Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission and will analyze its effects, allowing scientists and engineers to gain [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197463","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}