{"id":488583,"date":"2026-06-21T15:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T15:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/488583\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T15:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T15:25:08","slug":"fifa-world-cup-ball-sent-to-space-aboard-iss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/488583\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA World Cup ball sent to space aboard ISS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Astronauts aboard the ISS recreated a 2019 experiment using the official adidas 2026 FIFA World Cup ball, Trionda, to explore how balance, weight distribution and embedded technologies can affect a football\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n<p>According to NASA, the experiment examined how factors such as a ball\u2019s center of mass, overall balance and built-in match sensors influence its movement and behavior during play.<\/p>\n<p>Footage shared on NASA\u2019s official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DZz4bjIjhdm\/?img_index=5&amp;igsh=MWM5cGsxYzg1cmt0MA%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0account showed astronauts playing with the World Cup ball in zero gravity aboard the ISS.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, <a href=\"https:\/\/qazinform.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Qazinform<\/a> News Agency <a href=\"https:\/\/qazinform.com\/news\/nasa-names-artemis-iii-crew-as-agency-moves-toward-2027-moon-mission-9295a6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">reported<\/a> that NASA recently announced the four-member crew for the Artemis III mission, a key milestone in the agency\u2019s plans to return humans to the Moon and prepare for future missions to Mars.<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Astronauts aboard the ISS recreated a 2019 experiment using the official adidas 2026 FIFA World Cup ball, Trionda,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-488583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}