{"id":657409,"date":"2020-06-09T05:17:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T09:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=657409"},"modified":"2020-06-09T05:17:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T09:17:00","slug":"thailand-team-wins-un-access-to-esas-hypergravity-centrifuge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=657409","title":{"rendered":"Thailand team wins UN access to ESA\u2019s hypergravity centrifuge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ESA_s_Large_Diameter_Centrifuge_card_full.gif\" alt=\"ESA's Large Diameter Centrifuge\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ESA and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs have selected a team from Mahidol University, Thailand to carry out research using ESA\u2019s hypergravity-generating Large Diameter Centrifuge. The team will see how watermeal \u2013 the smallest flowering plant on Earth, even smaller than the more familiar duckweed \u2013 responds to changing gravity levels to assess its usefulness for space-based life support systems.<\/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\/Thailand_team_wins_UN_access_to_ESA_s_hypergravity_centrifuge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Thailand team wins UN access to ESA\u2019s hypergravity centrifuge<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESA and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs have selected a team from Mahidol University, Thailand to carry out research using ESA\u2019s hypergravity-generating Large Diameter Centrifuge. The team&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":657410,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657409","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\/657409","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=657409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/657410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=657409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=657409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=657409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}