{"id":4326,"date":"2015-05-22T08:48:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T08:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/?p=4326"},"modified":"2015-05-22T08:48:10","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T08:48:10","slug":"asteroid-impact-mission-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/asteroid-impact-mission-spacecraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid impact mission spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Asteroid_Impact_Mission_spacecraft_node_full_image_2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4327\" src=\"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Asteroid_Impact_Mission_spacecraft_node_full_image_2.jpg\" alt=\"Asteroid_Impact_Mission_spacecraft_node_full_image_2\" width=\"700\" height=\"392\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Asteroid_Impact_Mission_spacecraft_node_full_image_2.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Asteroid_Impact_Mission_spacecraft_node_full_image_2-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Asteroid_Impact_Mission_spacecraft_node_full_image_2-70x40.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Description<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ESA\u2019s\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #d0103a;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/Asteroid_Impact_Mission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Asteroid Impact Mission<\/span><\/a>, being studied for a 2022 arrival at the Didymos double asteroid, involves not just one but four spacecraft.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The main spacecraft (seen here towards bottom left) would carry a small lander (seen here in dark on the asteroid) to touch down on the 180 m-diameter secondary asteroid, or \u2018Didymoon\u2019. It would also release at least two CubeSats (seen at the top left and towards the right of the image).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">These multiple spacecraft would allow AIM to test deep-space intersatellite relays, while the lander would gather experience in low-gravity proximity operations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Then, in 2022, NASA\u2019s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) would arrive and slam at high speed into Didymoon, with the quartet providing multiple viewpoints of this unique event and its aftermath.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">AIM and DART would together form an international mission called Asteroid Impact &amp; Deflection Assessment, or AIDA.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Description ESA\u2019s\u00a0Asteroid Impact Mission, being studied for a 2022 arrival at the Didymos double asteroid, involves not just one but four spacecraft. The main spacecraft (seen here towards bottom left) would carry a small lander (seen here in dark on the asteroid) to touch down on the 180 m-diameter secondary asteroid, or \u2018Didymoon\u2019. It would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-space-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Asteroid_Impact_Mission_spacecraft_node_full_image_2.jpg",700,392,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Asteroid_Impact_Mission_spacecraft_node_full_image_2-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Asteroid_Impact_Mission_spacecraft_node_full_image_2-300x168.jpg",300,168,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Asteroid_Impact_Mission_spacecraft_node_full_image_2.jpg",700,392,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Asteroid_Impact_Mission_spacecraft_node_full_image_2.jpg",700,392,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Asteroid_Impact_Mission_spacecraft_node_full_image_2.jpg",700,392,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Asteroid_Impact_Mission_spacecraft_node_full_image_2.jpg",700,392,false],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Asteroid_Impact_Mission_spacecraft_node_full_image_2.jpg",700,392,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Asteroid_Impact_Mission_spacecraft_node_full_image_2.jpg",700,392,false],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Asteroid_Impact_Mission_spacecraft_node_full_image_2.jpg",600,336,false],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Asteroid_Impact_Mission_spacecraft_node_full_image_2.jpg",600,336,false],"newspaper-x-single-post":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Asteroid_Impact_Mission_spacecraft_node_full_image_2.jpg",700,392,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-big":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Asteroid_Impact_Mission_spacecraft_node_full_image_2.jpg",550,308,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-list-image":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Asteroid_Impact_Mission_spacecraft_node_full_image_2.jpg",95,53,false],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Asteroid_Impact_Mission_spacecraft_node_full_image_2.jpg",640,358,false],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Asteroid_Impact_Mission_spacecraft_node_full_image_2.jpg",96,54,false],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Asteroid_Impact_Mission_spacecraft_node_full_image_2.jpg",150,84,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Amrita Tuladhar"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/category\/news\/space-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Space\/ AstroPhysics<\/a>","tag_info":"Space\/ AstroPhysics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}