{"id":737860,"date":"2022-10-13T07:47:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T11:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=737860"},"modified":"2022-10-13T07:47:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T11:47:00","slug":"nano-material-diet-means-safer-slimmer-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=737860","title":{"rendered":"Nano-material diet means safer, slimmer satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Applying_graphene_nano-enabled_adhesive_card_full-2.png\" alt=\"Applying graphene nano-enabled adhesive\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A miniscule special ingredient blended with satellite materials could lead to significant mass savings for future missions. An ESA project with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adamant-composites.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Adamant Composites<\/a> in Greece tested how the addition of graphene \u2013 microscopic flakes of carbon just a single atom thick, combining robust strength with electrical conductivity \u2013 plus other nano-sized materials has the potential to optimise a satellite\u2019s thermal and electrical properties.<\/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\/Nano-material_diet_means_safer_slimmer_satellites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nano-material diet means safer, slimmer satellites<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space Engineering &amp; Technology&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A miniscule special ingredient blended with satellite materials could lead to significant mass savings for future missions. An ESA project with Adamant Composites in Greece tested how the addition of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":737861,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737860","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\/737860","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=737860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/737861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=737860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=737860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=737860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}