{"id":79191,"date":"2018-05-31T08:42:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T15:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/testing-deflection"},"modified":"2018-05-31T08:42:29","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T15:42:29","slug":"testing-deflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/testing-deflection","title":{"rendered":"Testing deflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/testing-deflection2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2022, NASA\u2019s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/planetarydefense\/dart\" title=\"NASA DART\" target=\"_blank\">DART<\/a>) collides with the smaller body of the Didymos binary asteroid system in an attempt to measurably shift its orbit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scitecheuropa.eu\/double-asteroid-redirection-test\/84655\/\" title=\"More about ESA's Hera mission\">ESA\u2019s Hera mission<\/a>, now under study, will examine the aftermath of this impact to help determine whether humans can deflect threatening asteroids.<\/p>\n<p>Hera will also demonstrate the ability to operate at close proximity around a low-gravity asteroid with some on-board autonomy similar in scope to a self-driving car, going on to deploy Europe\u2019s first deep-space CubeSats, and potentially also a micro-lander, to test out a new multi-point intersatellite link technology.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinimages\/Images\/2018\/06\/Testing_deflection\">http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinimages\/Images\/2018\/06\/Testing_deflection<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2022, NASA\u2019s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) collides with the smaller body of the Didymos binary asteroid system in an attempt to measurably shift its orbit. ESA\u2019s Hera mission, now under study, will examine the aftermath of this impact to help determine whether humans can deflect threatening asteroids. Hera will also demonstrate the ability [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79191","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}