{"id":221658,"date":"2014-10-22T02:38:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T06:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"3105488645d0c4bec4abdb485139eff9"},"modified":"2014-10-22T02:38:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T06:38:00","slug":"jeff-wayne-behind-solar-simulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=221658","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Wayne behind solar simulator"},"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\/10\/jeff_wayne_behind_solar_simulator\/14990459-7-eng-GB\/Jeff_Wayne_behind_solar_simulator_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"95\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nMusician Jeff Wayne, composer of the classic album version of <i>The War of the Worlds<\/i>, encountering a real-life equivalent of a heat-ray generator during a tour of ESA\u2019s technical heart.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the H.G. Wells tale of alien invasion, martians use heat rays to fight their way across Victorian England. This is a rear view of ESA\u2019s largest solar simulator, which uses 19 IMAX-class xenon lamps to cast a concentrated beam of sunshine into Europe\u2019s largest vacuum chamber: the Large Space Simulator, at the ESTEC Test Centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSatellites sit inside the chamber for weeks at a time, in the simulated vacuum and temperature extremes of space, including the unfiltered sunlight of Earth orbit \u2013 or, with modifications, as experienced around Venus or Mercury.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA long-time space enthusiast, Jeff Wayne took the opportunity to tour ESTEC on 13 October, taking a break from preparing for the live arena version of his musical show in Amsterdam, the last ever in the Netherlands, on 16 December. A fitting way to mark this event!<\/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\/10\/jeff_wayne_behind_solar_simulator\/14990459-7-eng-GB\/Jeff_Wayne_behind_solar_simulator_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"95\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nMusician Jeff Wayne, composer of the classic album version of <i>The War of the Worlds<\/i>, encountering a real-life equivalent of a heat-ray generator during a tour of ESA\u2019s technical heart.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the H.G. Wells tale of alien invasion, martians use heat rays to fight their way across Victorian England. This is a rear view of ESA\u2019s largest solar simulator, which uses 19 IMAX-class xenon lamps to cast a concentrated beam of sunshine into Europe\u2019s largest vacuum chamber: the Large Space Simulator, at the ESTEC Test Centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSatellites sit inside the chamber for weeks at a time, in the simulated vacuum and temperature extremes of space, including the unfiltered sunlight of Earth orbit \u2013 or, with modifications, as experienced around Venus or Mercury.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA long-time space enthusiast, Jeff Wayne took the opportunity to tour ESTEC on 13 October, taking a break from preparing for the live arena version of his musical show in Amsterdam, the last ever in the Netherlands, on 16 December. A fitting way to mark this event!<\/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-221658","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\/221658","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=221658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221658\/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=221658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}