{"id":599598,"date":"2019-04-01T02:04:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T06:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=b479ef3f9957426d1e753322517bbf57"},"modified":"2019-04-01T02:04:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T06:04:00","slug":"20-years-of-esas-concurrent-design-facility-an-oral-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=599598","title":{"rendered":"20 years of ESA\u2019s Concurrent Design Facility: an oral history"},"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\/12\/concurrent_design_facility\/19166598-1-eng-GB\/Concurrent_Design_Facility_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nIt looks like a flight control room, on the upper floor laboratory corridor of ESA&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/About_Us\/ESTEC\">ESTEC<\/a> technical heart in the Netherlands: interlinked console are ranged in front of a 6-m long multimedia wall, to host representatives of all space mission disciplines. Except ESA\u2019s Concurrent Design Facility is not a place to steer satellites, but to create them.<\/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\/12\/concurrent_design_facility\/19166598-1-eng-GB\/Concurrent_Design_Facility_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nIt looks like a flight control room, on the upper floor laboratory corridor of ESA&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/About_Us\/ESTEC\">ESTEC<\/a> technical heart in the Netherlands: interlinked console are ranged in front of a 6-m long multimedia wall, to host representatives of all space mission disciplines. Except ESA&rsquo;s Concurrent Design Facility is not a place to steer satellites, but to create them.<\/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-599598","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\/599598","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=599598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599599,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599598\/revisions\/599599"}],"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=599598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=599598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=599598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}