{"id":506215,"date":"2018-08-06T05:17:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T09:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=bb60a1b60e6c5da9bd890f5c4994a69d"},"modified":"2018-08-06T05:17:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T09:17:00","slug":"dune-side-aerial-view-of-esas-estec-technical-centre-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=506215","title":{"rendered":"Dune-side aerial view of ESA\u2019s ESTEC technical centre"},"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\/2018\/08\/dune-side_aerial_view_of_esa_s_estec_technical_centre\/17633125-1-eng-GB\/Dune-side_aerial_view_of_ESA_s_ESTEC_technical_centre_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nA rare dune-side aerial view of ESA\u2019s ESTEC technical centre on the Dutch coast, the location of ESA\u2019s annual Open Day.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOn the left of the image can be seen ESTEC\u2019s Test Centre for full-scale testing of satellites, equipped with a suite of simulation facilities to reproduce every aspect of the space environment.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the centre is the main building, home to ESA laboratories and mission teams, distinguished by an almost 200-m long main corridor. To the right of the main building is the restaurant and tower complex built by renowned Dutch architect Aldo van Eyck in the late 1980s.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOn the other side of the car park is the two-tone square-shaped Erasmus building, focused on human spaceflight, and to its right is the T building, home to ESA\u2019s Galileo team.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCome see ESTEC for yourself during the annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/About_Us\/ESTEC\/Open_day_2018\" title=\"open day\" >ESA Open Day on Sunday, 7 October<\/a>. To learn more about ESTEC and its history, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/About_Us\/ESA_Publications\/ESA_Publications_Brochures\/ESA_BR-339_Place_for_Space\" title=\"brochure\" >click 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\/images\/2018\/08\/dune-side_aerial_view_of_esa_s_estec_technical_centre\/17633125-1-eng-GB\/Dune-side_aerial_view_of_ESA_s_ESTEC_technical_centre_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nA rare dune-side aerial view of ESA&rsquo;s ESTEC technical centre on the Dutch coast, the location of ESA&rsquo;s annual Open Day.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOn the left of the image can be seen ESTEC&rsquo;s Test Centre for full-scale testing of satellites, equipped with a suite of simulation facilities to reproduce every aspect of the space environment.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the centre is the main building, home to ESA laboratories and mission teams, distinguished by an almost 200-m long main corridor. To the right of the main building is the restaurant and tower complex built by renowned Dutch architect Aldo van Eyck in the late 1980s.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOn the other side of the car park is the two-tone square-shaped Erasmus building, focused on human spaceflight, and to its right is the T building, home to ESA&rsquo;s Galileo team.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCome see ESTEC for yourself during the annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/About_Us\/ESTEC\/Open_day_2018\" title=\"open day\" target=\"_blank\">ESA Open Day on Sunday, 7 October<\/a>. To learn more about ESTEC and its history, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/About_Us\/ESA_Publications\/ESA_Publications_Brochures\/ESA_BR-339_Place_for_Space\" title=\"brochure\" target=\"_blank\">click 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-506215","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\/506215","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=506215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506216,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506215\/revisions\/506216"}],"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=506215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=506215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=506215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}