{"id":225078,"date":"2015-02-05T06:23:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T10:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/e2fea8c8d6c3ed8ced6600725d7cedd8"},"modified":"2015-02-05T06:23:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T10:23:00","slug":"maxwell-test-chamber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=225078","title":{"rendered":"Maxwell Test Chamber"},"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\/2015\/02\/maxwell_test_chamber\/15237916-1-eng-GB\/Maxwell_Test_Chamber_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThese 9 m-high spike-lined walls enclose the hushed interior of ESA\u2019s Maxwell test chamber, which isolates satellites from all external influences to assess their electromagnetic compatibility.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOnce its main door is sealed, the metal walls of the chamber form a \u2018Faraday Cage\u2019, screening out external electromagnetic signals. The \u2018anechoic\u2019 foam pyramids covering its interior absorb internal signals \u2013 as well as sound \u2013 to prevent any reflection, mimicking the infinite void of space.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe satellite\u2019s systems are then switched on to detect any harmful interference as its various elements operate together.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/Electromagnetic_compatibility\">Maxwell<\/a> is part of the test centre in ESA\u2019s technical heart in Noordwijk, the Netherlands \u2013 Europe\u2019s largest satellite testing facility.<\/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\/2015\/02\/maxwell_test_chamber\/15237916-1-eng-GB\/Maxwell_Test_Chamber_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThese 9 m-high spike-lined walls enclose the hushed interior of ESA\u2019s Maxwell test chamber, which isolates satellites from all external influences to assess their electromagnetic compatibility.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOnce its main door is sealed, the metal walls of the chamber form a \u2018Faraday Cage\u2019, screening out external electromagnetic signals. The \u2018anechoic\u2019 foam pyramids covering its interior absorb internal signals \u2013 as well as sound \u2013 to prevent any reflection, mimicking the infinite void of space.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe satellite\u2019s systems are then switched on to detect any harmful interference as its various elements operate together.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/Electromagnetic_compatibility\">Maxwell<\/a> is part of the test centre in ESA\u2019s technical heart in Noordwijk, the Netherlands \u2013 Europe\u2019s largest satellite testing facility.<\/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-225078","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\/225078","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=225078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225093,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225078\/revisions\/225093"}],"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=225078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}