{"id":545228,"date":"2018-11-05T04:17:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T08:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=fcaa4be570997141e3bedd18504d1167"},"modified":"2018-11-05T04:17:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T08:17:00","slug":"laser-battle-that-gave-europe-our-aeolus-wind-mapper-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=545228","title":{"rendered":"Laser battle that gave Europe our Aeolus wind-mapper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2018\/11\/aeolus_in_orbit\/17851580-1-eng-GB\/Aeolus_in_orbit_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nIt passes over at us at local dawn or dusk: among the most ambitious lasers ever flown in space, shining down to map Earth\u2019s otherwise unknown global wind field. ESA\u2019s Aeolus mission took more than two decades to reach this point. The laser was a key technology: in testing, the intensity of its beam was actually destroying the laser\u2019s optical elements \u2013 the mission could not fly until this problem was fixed.<\/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\/11\/aeolus_in_orbit\/17851580-1-eng-GB\/Aeolus_in_orbit_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nIt passes over at us at local dawn or dusk: among the most ambitious lasers ever flown in space, shining down to map Earth&rsquo;s otherwise unknown global wind field. ESA&rsquo;s Aeolus mission took more than two decades to reach this point. The laser was a key technology: in testing, the intensity of its beam was actually destroying the laser&rsquo;s optical elements &ndash; the mission could not fly until this problem was fixed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545228","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\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=545228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":545229,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545228\/revisions\/545229"}],"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=545228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=545228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=545228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}