{"id":581043,"date":"2019-02-15T04:59:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T08:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=c9bcb5e4f469085fd045f49c9a894ab7"},"modified":"2019-02-15T04:59:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T08:59:00","slug":"project-pextex-materials-for-lunar-spacesuits-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=581043","title":{"rendered":"Project Pextex: materials for lunar spacesuits"},"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\/2015\/03\/eugene_cernan\/15299754-1-eng-GB\/Eugene_Cernan_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nOn 17 January 2019 ESA signed a study contract with <a href=\"http:\/\/comex.fr%20\/\">Comex<\/a> and its partners <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ditf.de\/\">DITF<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/oewf.org\/\">OeWF<\/a>. Pextex is a two-year project to identify materials and textiles that could be used for future lunar mission space suits.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe project aims to develop solutions that could be based on existing space suit materials, but also identify novel types of textiles with self-healing functions or repulsing lunar dust and smart textiles for example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 17 January 2019 ESA signed a study contract with Comex and its partners DITF and OeWF. Pextex is a two-year project to identify materials and textiles that could be used for future lunar mission space suits.<\/p>\n<p>The project aims to develop&#8230;<\/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-581043","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\/581043","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=581043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581044,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581043\/revisions\/581044"}],"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=581043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=581043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=581043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}