{"id":228251,"date":"2015-04-22T03:35:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T07:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"1bade36638c6ddf2a74091e736d6e4f1"},"modified":"2015-04-22T03:35:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T07:35:00","slug":"laser-test-bench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=228251","title":{"rendered":"Laser test bench"},"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\/04\/laser_test_bench\/15368593-3-eng-GB\/Laser_test_bench_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThis ESA test bench is usually shrouded in darkness, except for the laser beam being projected across it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHuman eyes are not normally supposed to witness the laser being fired \u2013 for this photo, it was fired at the lowest possible energy level, while the camera was switched to its highest light-sensitive settings for an exposure time of half a second.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLasers are versatile tools for space, variously used for remote sensing, interferometry and communications. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/The_Optics_and_Opto-Electronics_Laboratories\">ESA\u2019s Opto-Electronics Laboratory<\/a>, at the Agency\u2019s ESTEC technical centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, specialises in assessing devices that generate, detect and manipulate light.<\/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\/04\/laser_test_bench\/15368593-3-eng-GB\/Laser_test_bench_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThis ESA test bench is usually shrouded in darkness, except for the laser beam being projected across it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHuman eyes are not normally supposed to witness the laser being fired \u2013 for this photo, it was fired at the lowest possible energy level, while the camera was switched to its highest light-sensitive settings for an exposure time of half a second.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLasers are versatile tools for space, variously used for remote sensing, interferometry and communications. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/The_Optics_and_Opto-Electronics_Laboratories\">ESA\u2019s Opto-Electronics Laboratory<\/a>, at the Agency\u2019s ESTEC technical centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, specialises in assessing devices that generate, detect and manipulate light.<\/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-228251","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\/228251","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=228251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228251\/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=228251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}