{"id":685132,"date":"2021-03-25T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=685132"},"modified":"2021-03-25T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T12:00:00","slug":"space-vs-materials-orbital-testing-outside-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=685132","title":{"rendered":"Space vs. materials \u2013 orbital testing outside Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Pitted_cracked_surface_from_MEDET_card_full.png\" alt=\"Pitted, cracked surface from MEDET\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Space leaves its mark on materials: exposure to such a harsh environment can darken, crack or crater their surfaces \u2013 or even erode them away entirely. The nothingness of hard vacuum can also provoke \u2018outgassing\u2019 vapours from materials that might degrade delicate mission systems. Accordingly ESA and the French space agency <a href=\"https:\/\/cnes.fr\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">CNES<\/a> are giving European researchers the chance to pit the latest aerospace materials directly against space.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/Space_vs._materials_orbital_testing_outside_Space_Station\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Space vs. materials \u2013 orbital testing outside Space Station<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space Engineering &amp; Technology&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space leaves its mark on materials: exposure to such a harsh environment can darken, crack or crater their surfaces \u2013 or even erode them away entirely. The nothingness of hard&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":685133,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685132","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\/685132","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=685132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/685133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=685132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=685132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=685132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}