{"id":190410,"date":"2013-04-03T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"7ca5621754725ba9308279215941576d"},"modified":"2013-04-03T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T10:00:00","slug":"uv-test-facility-at-estec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=190410","title":{"rendered":"UV test facility at ESTEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2013\/04\/uv_test_facility_at_estec\/12600898-1-eng-GB\/UV_test_facility_at_ESTEC_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nTest engineer Laurence Levan is bathed in an intense green glow from powerful ultraviolet lamps simulating the unfiltered sunlight of space within a test chamber \u2013 the lamplight being in fact blue, but filtered through yellow screens to block the harmful ultraviolet rays.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis is the CROSS1 VUV-UV high vacuum chamber at work, based in the Materials and Electrical Components Laboratories at ESA\u2019s ESTEC technical centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe facility is used to recreate the space environment by attaining space-quality vacuum, while subjecting the test item to temperature extremes \u2013 ranging from -150\u00b0C to +400\u00b0C or higher \u2013 and exposing it to simulate ultraviolet solar radiation, up to 13 times the sunlight experienced by satellites in Earth orbit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2013\/04\/uv_test_facility_at_estec\/12600898-1-eng-GB\/UV_test_facility_at_ESTEC_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nTest engineer Laurence Levan is bathed in an intense green glow from powerful ultraviolet lamps simulating the unfiltered sunlight of space within a test chamber \u2013 the lamplight being in fact blue, but filtered through yellow screens to block the harmful ultraviolet rays.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis is the CROSS1 VUV-UV high vacuum chamber at work, based in the Materials and Electrical Components Laboratories at ESA\u2019s ESTEC technical centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe facility is used to recreate the space environment by attaining space-quality vacuum, while subjecting the test item to temperature extremes \u2013 ranging from -150\u00b0C to +400\u00b0C or higher \u2013 and exposing it to simulate ultraviolet solar radiation, up to 13 times the sunlight experienced by satellites in Earth orbit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}