{"id":730310,"date":"2022-07-21T07:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=730310"},"modified":"2022-07-21T07:04:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T11:04:00","slug":"earthcare-takes-a-big-stretch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=730310","title":{"rendered":"EarthCARE takes a big stretch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/EarthCARE_solar_wing_deployed_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"EarthCARE solar wing deployed\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ESA\u2019s upcoming EarthCARE satellite mission has just taken a big stretch. Engineers have gently unfolded this new satellite\u2019s huge five-panel solar wing to test that it will deploy correctly once it is in space. The solar wing is a critical part of the satellite, providing the energy for EarthCARE to do its job: to quantify the role that clouds and aerosols play in heating and cooling Earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Applications\/Observing_the_Earth\/FutureEO\/EarthCARE\/EarthCARE_takes_a_big_stretch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">EarthCARE takes a big stretch<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESA\u2019s upcoming EarthCARE satellite mission has just taken a big stretch. Engineers have gently unfolded this new satellite\u2019s huge five-panel solar wing to test that it will deploy correctly once&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":730311,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730310","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\/730310","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=730310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/730311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=730310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=730310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=730310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}