{"id":243220,"date":"2016-10-13T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=c10a0a33e160fc8d5af0c49b60429d62"},"modified":"2016-10-13T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T11:00:00","slug":"alessandro-cozzani-lights-cameras-action-for-satellite-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=243220","title":{"rendered":"Alessandro Cozzani: Lights, cameras, action for satellite testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2016\/10\/alessandro_cozzani_lights_cameras_action_for_satellite_testing\/16180166-1-eng-GB\/Alessandro_Cozzani_Lights_cameras_action_for_satellite_testing_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nSatellites in airless space must endure high and low temperatures simultaneously, as some parts are exposed to sunlight and others remain in shadow. In advance of launch satellites are exposed to vacuum for prolonged periods, to ensure they can withstand extreme space conditions and maintain optimal internal temperature levels.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlessandro Cozzani, ESA\u2019s Head of Engineering Services Section at the ESTEC Test Centre explains the advanced photogrammetry and thermal cameras which gather data during these challenging \u2018thermal vacuum\u2019 tests.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTo learn more, read his interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/Talking_technology\/Alessandro_Cozzani_Lights_cameras_action_for_satellite_testing\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2016\/10\/alessandro_cozzani_lights_cameras_action_for_satellite_testing\/16180166-1-eng-GB\/Alessandro_Cozzani_Lights_cameras_action_for_satellite_testing_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nSatellites in airless space must endure high and low temperatures simultaneously, as some parts are exposed to sunlight and others remain in shadow. In advance of launch satellites are exposed to vacuum for prolonged periods, to ensure they can withstand extreme space conditions and maintain optimal internal temperature levels.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlessandro Cozzani, ESA&rsquo;s Head of Engineering Services Section at the ESTEC Test Centre explains the advanced photogrammetry and thermal cameras which gather data during these challenging &lsquo;thermal vacuum&rsquo; tests.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTo learn more, read his interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/Talking_technology\/Alessandro_Cozzani_Lights_cameras_action_for_satellite_testing\">here<\/a><\/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-243220","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\/243220","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=243220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243221,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243220\/revisions\/243221"}],"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=243220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}