{"id":343662,"date":"2017-07-06T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=131c56179f89f41dc1c14ece40e34e11"},"modified":"2017-07-06T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T14:00:00","slug":"mercury-planetary-orbiter-solar-wing-deployment-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=343662","title":{"rendered":"Mercury Planetary Orbiter solar wing deployment"},"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\/2017\/07\/mercury_planetary_orbiter_solar_wing_deployment\/17051636-1-eng-GB\/Mercury_Planetary_Orbiter_solar_wing_deployment_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nVideo showing the deployment of the Mercury Planetary Orbiter\u2019s 7.5 m-long solar wing in ESA\u2019s test centre. The panels were held from above to simulate the weightlessness of space.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn this view, the \u2018back\u2019 of the wing is facing the viewer, showing the cabling that will be connected to the main body, while the reflective Sun-facing sides of the panels are &nbsp;not seen. One of the back panels is also reflective, to deflect stray light coming from the body.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe wing will be folded against the body inside the Ariane 5 launch vehicle and will only open once it is in space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2017\/07\/mercury_planetary_orbiter_solar_wing_deployment\/17051636-1-eng-GB\/Mercury_Planetary_Orbiter_solar_wing_deployment_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nVideo showing the deployment of the Mercury Planetary Orbiter&rsquo;s 7.5 m-long solar wing in ESA&rsquo;s test centre. The panels were held from above to simulate the weightlessness of space.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn this view, the &lsquo;back&rsquo; of the wing is facing the viewer, showing the cabling that will be connected to the main body, while the reflective Sun-facing sides of the panels are &nbsp;not seen. One of the back panels is also reflective, to deflect stray light coming from the body.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe wing will be folded against the body inside the Ariane 5 launch vehicle and will only open once it is in space.<\/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-343662","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\/343662","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=343662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343663,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343662\/revisions\/343663"}],"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=343662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}