{"id":217525,"date":"2013-09-11T05:13:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T09:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"e62f015fd17153ce5f3e466a896fefd2"},"modified":"2013-09-11T05:13:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T09:13:00","slug":"dtu-esa-spherical-near-field-antenna-test-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=217525","title":{"rendered":"DTU-ESA Spherical Near-Field Antenna Test Facility"},"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\/09\/dtu-esa_spherical_near-field_antenna_test_facility\/13021361-1-eng-GB\/DTU-ESA_Spherical_Near-Field_Antenna_Test_Facility_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nTesting inside the DTU-ESA Spherical Near-Field Antenna Test Facility (SNFTF) at the Technical University of Denmark. This is one of ESA\u2019s external laboratories, specialist centres of excellence located across Europe, supplementing the Agency\u2019s in-house facilities.&nbsp;The SNFTF can sample an antenna\u2019s surrounding electrical field in close-up on a highly accurate basis in all directions, then extrapolate these values to its far-off performance.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis photo, taken around the end of 2005, shows testing to part of the MIRAS antenna, flown in space in 2009 aboard ESA&#8217;s SMOS mission.&nbsp;Associate Professor Sergey N. Pivnenko, manager of the DTU-ESA Facility, is seen in the foreground, with Jerzy Lemanczyk, ESA\u2019s then technical officer for the SMOS antenna, directing down the light upon it.<\/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\/09\/dtu-esa_spherical_near-field_antenna_test_facility\/13021361-1-eng-GB\/DTU-ESA_Spherical_Near-Field_Antenna_Test_Facility_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nTesting inside the DTU-ESA Spherical Near-Field Antenna Test Facility (SNFTF) at the Technical University of Denmark. This is one of ESA\u2019s external laboratories, specialist centres of excellence located across Europe, supplementing the Agency\u2019s in-house facilities.&nbsp;The SNFTF can sample an antenna\u2019s surrounding electrical field in close-up on a highly accurate basis in all directions, then extrapolate these values to its far-off performance.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis photo, taken around the end of 2005, shows testing to part of the MIRAS antenna, flown in space in 2009 aboard ESA&#8217;s SMOS mission.&nbsp;Associate Professor Sergey N. Pivnenko, manager of the DTU-ESA Facility, is seen in the foreground, with Jerzy Lemanczyk, ESA\u2019s then technical officer for the SMOS antenna, directing down the light upon it.<\/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-217525","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\/217525","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=217525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217525\/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=217525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}