{"id":736917,"date":"2022-10-04T16:51:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T20:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=736917"},"modified":"2022-10-04T16:51:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T20:51:26","slug":"testing-space-bound-us-european-water-mission-passes-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=736917","title":{"rendered":"Testing: Space-bound US-European water mission passes finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before any NASA mission is launched, the spacecraft goes through weeks of harsh treatment. It&#8217;s strapped to a big table that shakes as hard as the pounding of a rocket launch. It&#8217;s bombarded with louder noise than a stadium rock concert. It&#8217;s frozen, baked, and irradiated in a vacuum chamber that simulates the extremes of space. The Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission (SWOT), a collaborative U.S.-French mission to monitor all the water on Earth&#8217;s surface, has passed these major tests. Now, except for a few final checks, SWOT is ready for its December launch.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-10-space-bound-us-european-mission.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Testing: Space-bound US-European water mission passes finals<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before any NASA mission is launched, the spacecraft goes through weeks of harsh treatment. It&#8217;s strapped to a big table that shakes as hard as the pounding of a rocket&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736917","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=736917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=736917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=736917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=736917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}