{"id":704911,"date":"2021-10-13T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=704911"},"modified":"2021-10-13T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T14:00:00","slug":"euclid-telescope-completes-space-test-in-belgium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=704911","title":{"rendered":"Euclid Telescope completes space test in Belgium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Euclid_Telescope_completes_space_test_in_Belgium_card_full.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ESA\u2019s Euclid mission aims to investigate dark matter, dark energy and the expanding Universe.<\/p>\n<p>Euclid has reached a new milestone in its development with successful testing of the telescope and instruments showing that it can operate and achieve the required performance in the extreme environment of space.<\/p>\n<p>At Centre Spatial de Li\u00e8ge (CSL) in Belgium, the payload module (containing the telescope and scientific instruments) was packed in a thermal tent, after which it was loaded in a large vacuum tank where it underwent intensive testing.<\/p>\n<p>Euclid experienced simulated space conditions in vacuum with the payload module cooled to -150<sup>o<\/sup>C, the same temperature it will operate in once in space.<\/p>\n<p>After 60 days of intensive testing, 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, the vacuum chamber was opened and Euclid was taken out of the thermal tent.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2021\/10\/Euclid_Telescope_completes_space_test_in_Belgium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Euclid Telescope completes space test in Belgium<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESA\u2019s Euclid mission aims to investigate dark matter, dark energy and the expanding Universe. Euclid has reached a new milestone in its development with successful testing of the telescope and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":704912,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-704911","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\/704911","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=704911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/704912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=704911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=704911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=704911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}