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\nSelected after a worldwide competition, the new name of ESA\u2019s recently refitted Compact Payload Test Range is Hertz \u2013 which stands for \u2018Hybrid European RF antenna Test Zone\u2019.\n<\/p>\n
\nAnnouncing it, the new name is shone onto the reflectors normally used to change the shape of the signals from test antennas, as if they originated from far away across space.\n<\/p>\n
\nA new name was sought after the redesigned facility \u2013 used to test large space antennas at ESA\u2019s Technology Centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands \u2013 gained the ability to perform both \u2018far-field\u2019 and \u2018near-field\u2019 signal measurements, thanks to the addition of a versatile Near-Field Scanner.\n<\/p>\n
\nMore than 240 suggestions were received from around Europe and the world, from both inside the space industry and the general public.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe winning suggestion came from someone who works with the new Hertz chamber on a regular basis: ESA antenna engineer Luca Salghetti Drioli, seen right.\n<\/p>\n
\n\u201cHertz is the unit of frequency, of course, used all the time within the chamber,\u201d explains Luca. \u201cThis unit is named in turn for pioneering physicist Heinrich Hertz.\n<\/p>\n
\n\u201cESTEC already has a chamber named after James Clark Maxwell, who came up with the theory of electromagnetic waves, so it seemed right to honour the man whose name is associated with the fundamental unit of frequency.\n<\/p>\n
\n\u201cAnd taking the name Hertz we can include the word \u2018Hybrid\u2019 in the acronym. The refitted chamber\u2019s ability to support two measurement types is a first for Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\nSelected after a worldwide competition, the new name of ESA\u2019s recently refitted Compact Payload Test Range is Hertz \u2013 which stands for \u2018Hybrid European RF antenna Test Zone\u2019.\n<\/p>\n
\nAnnouncing it, the new name is shone onto the reflectors normally used to change the shape of the signals from test antennas, as if they originated from far away across space.\n<\/p>\n
\nA new name was sought after the redesigned facility \u2013 used to test large space antennas at ESA\u2019s Technology Centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands \u2013 gained the ability to perform both \u2018far-field\u2019 and \u2018near-field\u2019 signal measurements, thanks to the addition of a versatile Near-Field Scanner.\n<\/p>\n
\nMore than 240 suggestions were received from around Europe and the world, from both inside the space industry and the general public.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe winning suggestion came from someone who works with the new Hertz chamber on a regular basis: ESA antenna engineer Luca Salghetti Drioli, seen right.\n<\/p>\n
\n\u201cHertz is the unit of frequency, of course, used all the time within the chamber,\u201d explains Luca. \u201cThis unit is named in turn for pioneering physicist Heinrich Hertz.\n<\/p>\n
\n\u201cESTEC already has a chamber named after James Clark Maxwell, who came up with the theory of electromagnetic waves, so it seemed right to honour the man whose name is associated with the fundamental unit of frequency.\n<\/p>\n
\n\u201cAnd taking the name Hertz we can include the word \u2018Hybrid\u2019 in the acronym. The refitted chamber\u2019s ability to support two measurement types is a first for Europe.\u201d<\/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-220275","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\/220275","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=220275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220275\/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=220275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}