{"id":642726,"date":"2020-01-10T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=642726"},"modified":"2020-01-10T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T14:00:00","slug":"solar-orbiter-fuelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=642726","title":{"rendered":"Solar Orbiter fuelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Solar_Orbiter_fuelling_card_full.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Solar Orbiter spacecraft (seen in the background) is fuelled with propellants and oxidiser in the hazardous processing facility at Astrotech.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The spacecraft contains hydrazine and MON-3 \u2013 a mixture of oxides and nitrogen. Thrusters are used to control the attitude of the spacecraft once in space.<\/p>\n<p>Special suits provide protection to the workers managing the fuelling in the cleanroom.<\/p>\n<p>Solar Orbiter is a space mission of international collaboration between ESA and NASA. The spacecraft has been developed by Airbus. The image was taken at the Astrotech facilities in Titusville, Florida, USA.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2020\/01\/Solar_Orbiter_fuelling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Solar Orbiter fuelling<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Solar Orbiter spacecraft (seen in the background) is fuelled with propellants and oxidiser in the hazardous processing facility at Astrotech. \u00a0 The spacecraft contains hydrazine and MON-3 \u2013 a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":642727,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642726","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\/642726","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=642726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/642727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=642726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=642726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=642726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}