{"id":644497,"date":"2020-01-28T05:47:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T09:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=644497"},"modified":"2020-01-28T05:47:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T09:47:00","slug":"shielding-solar-orbiter-from-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=644497","title":{"rendered":"Shielding Solar Orbiter from the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Solar_Orbiter_imaging_the_Sun_card_full.gif\" alt=\"Solar Orbiter imaging the Sun\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ESA\u2019s Solar Orbiter spacecraft will venture just 42 million km from the Sun \u2013 about as close as it is possible to go and still be able to image our fiery parent star without having its instruments melt. Its cameras will peek through an advanced shield designed to dissipate heat while keeping the rest of the spacecraft within a protective cone of shadow. This heat shield took years to perfect.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/Shielding_Solar_Orbiter_from_the_Sun\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Shielding Solar Orbiter from the Sun<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space Engineering &amp; Technology&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESA\u2019s Solar Orbiter spacecraft will venture just 42 million km from the Sun \u2013 about as close as it is possible to go and still be able to image our&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":644498,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644497","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\/644497","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=644497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/644498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=644497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=644497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=644497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}