{"id":498557,"date":"2018-07-17T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=0dd1bfa9b3a34c582d0bf3ac6cd2623d"},"modified":"2018-07-17T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T13:00:00","slug":"shaking-orions-solar-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=498557","title":{"rendered":"Shaking Orion\u2019s solar wings"},"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\/2018\/07\/shaking_orion_s_solar_wings\/17593793-2-eng-GB\/Shaking_Orion_s_solar_wings_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nTesting the solar wings of the European service module that will provide power, water, air and electricity to NASA\u2019s Orion Moon module.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe solar arrays Orion will use to produce electricity are tested at ESA\u2019s technical heart in the Netherlands. Folded for launch, the fragile solar panels need to survive the rumbling into space aboard the most powerful rocket ever built, NASA\u2019s Space Launch System.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOrion\u2019s solar panels will be folded inside the rocket fairing on the first leg of the trip around the Moon. Once released from the rocket they will unfold and rotate towards the Sun to start delivering power.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTo make sure the solar panels will work after the intense launch, ESA engineers are putting them through rigorous tests that exceed what they will experience on launch day. This includes vibrating them on a shaking table and placing them in front of enormous speakers that recreate the harsh launch conditions.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOrion will eventually fly beyond the Moon with astronauts, the first time a spacecraft will support humans with European hardware will also be the farthest humans ever travel from Earth. The first mission \u2013 without astronauts \u2013 is getting ready for launch in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2018\/07\/shaking_orion_s_solar_wings\/17593793-2-eng-GB\/Shaking_Orion_s_solar_wings_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nTesting the solar wings of the European service module that will provide power, water, air and electricity to NASA&rsquo;s Orion Moon module.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe solar arrays Orion will use to produce electricity are tested at ESA&rsquo;s technical heart in the Netherlands. Folded for launch, the fragile solar panels need to survive the rumbling into space aboard the most powerful rocket ever built, NASA&rsquo;s Space Launch System.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOrion&rsquo;s solar panels will be folded inside the rocket fairing on the first leg of the trip around the Moon. Once released from the rocket they will unfold and rotate towards the Sun to start delivering power.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTo make sure the solar panels will work after the intense launch, ESA engineers are putting them through rigorous tests that exceed what they will experience on launch day. This includes vibrating them on a shaking table and placing them in front of enormous speakers that recreate the harsh launch conditions.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOrion will eventually fly beyond the Moon with astronauts, the first time a spacecraft will support humans with European hardware will also be the farthest humans ever travel from Earth. The first mission &ndash; without astronauts &ndash; is getting ready for launch in 2019.<\/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-498557","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\/498557","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=498557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":498558,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498557\/revisions\/498558"}],"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=498557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=498557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=498557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}