{"id":218753,"date":"2014-01-14T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/70025d2ad99e136fbd467aaa9b9ed948"},"modified":"2014-01-14T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T15:00:00","slug":"rosettas-solar-wing-deployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=218753","title":{"rendered":"Rosetta\u2019s solar wing deployment"},"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\/2014\/01\/rosetta_s_solar_wing_deployment\/13482336-5-eng-GB\/Rosetta_s_solar_wing_deployment_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nAs of January 2014, ESA\u2019s Rosetta spacecraft is far in deep space, preparing for its scheduled August arrival at comet 67P\/Churyumov\u2013Gerasimenko. Taken back in May 2002, this image shows Rosetta being checked in the ESTEC Test Centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOne of Rosetta\u2019s massive solar wings is undergoing a deployment test, supported on a rig to allow it to unfurl in Earth gravity instead of weightlessness.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEach made up of five hinged panels, the pair of wings stretches 32 m tip-to-tip from the box-shaped spacecraft. Steerable, they have provided sufficient solar power to allow Rosetta to operate as far as 800 million km from the Sun, further than any previous solar-powered mission.&nbsp; New \u2018LILT\u2019 \u2018low intensity low temperature\u2019 solar cells were specially designed for the array.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOn the top of the spacecraft can be glimpsed Rosetta\u2019s 2.2 m-diameter high-gain antenna, a steerable dish used to return science data to Earth.<\/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\/2014\/01\/rosetta_s_solar_wing_deployment\/13482336-5-eng-GB\/Rosetta_s_solar_wing_deployment_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nAs of January 2014, ESA\u2019s Rosetta spacecraft is far in deep space, preparing for its scheduled August arrival at comet 67P\/Churyumov\u2013Gerasimenko. Taken back in May 2002, this image shows Rosetta being checked in the ESTEC Test Centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOne of Rosetta\u2019s massive solar wings is undergoing a deployment test, supported on a rig to allow it to unfurl in Earth gravity instead of weightlessness.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEach made up of five hinged panels, the pair of wings stretches 32 m tip-to-tip from the box-shaped spacecraft. Steerable, they have provided sufficient solar power to allow Rosetta to operate as far as 800 million km from the Sun, further than any previous solar-powered mission.&nbsp; New \u2018LILT\u2019 \u2018low intensity low temperature\u2019 solar cells were specially designed for the array.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOn the top of the spacecraft can be glimpsed Rosetta\u2019s 2.2 m-diameter high-gain antenna, a steerable dish used to return science data to Earth.<\/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-218753","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\/218753","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=218753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218778,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218753\/revisions\/218778"}],"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=218753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}