{"id":219590,"date":"2014-03-26T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"bca4e256845216174c966ae5f84e3ce4"},"modified":"2014-03-26T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T23:00:00","slug":"esa-at-the-big-bang-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=219590","title":{"rendered":"ESA at the Big Bang Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2014\/03\/esa_at_the_big_bang_fair\/14347912-1-eng-GB\/ESA_at_the_Big_Bang_Fair_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA at the Big Bang Fair 2014\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Big Bang is the largest celebration of science, technology, engineering and maths for young people (primarily aged 7-19) in the UK. This year it took place in Birmingham from 13 to 16 March, welcoming almost 80 000 visitors. ESA was on hand to show visitors around a demonstration of a clean room. &nbsp;At its heart, The Big Bang is about careers and futures and highlighting the exciting possibilities that exist for young people with science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) backgrounds.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis year, ESA partnered with the UK Space Agency and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) to provide a stand at the Big Bang Science Fair. Together they provided exciting activities all about space, alongside more than 100 other science organisations.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nESA participated through the UKSA stand with the theme &quot;How to build a satellite&quot; and offered hands-on activities in a specially designed clean room simulation, demonstrated various sample materials from the ESA laboratories using clean room equipment to the enthusiastic visitors. In the clean room, experiments used an infra-red camera, vacuum chamber and a XRF (X-ray fluorescence spectrometer) showing how ESA tested items in satellites for missions and explained the importance of testing.<\/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\/videos\/2014\/03\/esa_at_the_big_bang_fair\/14347912-1-eng-GB\/ESA_at_the_Big_Bang_Fair_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA at the Big Bang Fair 2014\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Big Bang is the largest celebration of science, technology, engineering and maths for young people (primarily aged 7-19) in the UK. This year it took place in Birmingham from 13 to 16 March, welcoming almost 80 000 visitors. ESA was on hand to show visitors around a demonstration of a clean room. &nbsp;At its heart, The Big Bang is about careers and futures and highlighting the exciting possibilities that exist for young people with science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) backgrounds.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis year, ESA partnered with the UK Space Agency and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) to provide a stand at the Big Bang Science Fair. Together they provided exciting activities all about space, alongside more than 100 other science organisations.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nESA participated through the UKSA stand with the theme &quot;How to build a satellite&quot; and offered hands-on activities in a specially designed clean room simulation, demonstrated various sample materials from the ESA laboratories using clean room equipment to the enthusiastic visitors. In the clean room, experiments used an infra-red camera, vacuum chamber and a XRF (X-ray fluorescence spectrometer) showing how ESA tested items in satellites for missions and explained the importance of testing.<\/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-219590","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\/219590","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=219590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219590\/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=219590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}