{"id":242821,"date":"2016-09-15T03:53:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T07:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=ab042a31fb4eb6ec99fede3a87f8d87b"},"modified":"2016-09-15T03:53:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T07:53:00","slug":"kitchen-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=242821","title":{"rendered":"Kitchen control"},"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\/2016\/09\/kitchen_control\/16137267-2-eng-GB\/Kitchen_control_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nClusterweb is a software package developed by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Operations\/Cluster_II_operations\" title=\"Cluster operations\" >Cluster Flight Control Team<\/a> at ESA\u2019s mission control centre in Darmstadt, Germany, and has become an essential part of the team\u2019s daily activities.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCluster was launched in 2000 and comprises four identical satellites orbiting in tight coordination, making the most detailed measurements yet of small-scale events in near-Earth space, and on the interaction between the electrically charged atomic particles streaming from the Sun and Earth\u2019s magnetic field.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nClusterweb allows mission controllers \u2013 regardless of location \u2013 to check in real time mission status and the progress of routine activities such as ground station communication links, the receipt of data from a satellite or the correct execution of commands.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe software is being improved, allowing it to be used with other missions. Automated tools like Clusterweb allow routine operations to be increasingly monitored without hands-on human support from locations such as a kitchen \u2013 like the one belonging to Cluster operations manager Bruno Sousa seen in this photo \u2013 instead of a control room.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<i>Editor\u2019s note: Watch for a post coming up soon in ESA\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/rocketscience\" title=\"Rocket Science blog\" >Rocket Science blog<\/a> profiling Clusterweb and other tools being used to improve spacecraft operations.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2016\/09\/kitchen_control\/16137267-2-eng-GB\/Kitchen_control_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nClusterweb is a software package developed by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Operations\/Cluster_II_operations\" title=\"Cluster operations\" target=\"_blank\">Cluster Flight Control Team<\/a> at ESA&rsquo;s mission control centre in Darmstadt, Germany, and has become an essential part of the team&rsquo;s daily activities.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCluster was launched in 2000 and comprises four identical satellites orbiting in tight coordination, making the most detailed measurements yet of small-scale events in near-Earth space, and on the interaction between the electrically charged atomic particles streaming from the Sun and Earth&rsquo;s magnetic field.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nClusterweb allows mission controllers &ndash; regardless of location &ndash; to check in real time mission status and the progress of routine activities such as ground station communication links, the receipt of data from a satellite or the correct execution of commands.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe software is being improved, allowing it to be used with other missions. Automated tools like Clusterweb allow routine operations to be increasingly monitored without hands-on human support from locations such as a kitchen &ndash; like the one belonging to Cluster operations manager Bruno Sousa seen in this photo &ndash; instead of a control room.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<i>Editor&rsquo;s note: Watch for a post coming up soon in ESA&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/rocketscience\" title=\"Rocket Science blog\" target=\"_blank\">Rocket Science blog<\/a> profiling Clusterweb and other tools being used to improve spacecraft operations.<\/i><\/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-242821","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\/242821","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=242821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242822,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242821\/revisions\/242822"}],"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=242821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}