{"id":748918,"date":"2023-02-23T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=748918"},"modified":"2023-02-23T07:20:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T11:20:00","slug":"deploying-biomass-solar-wing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=748918","title":{"rendered":"Deploying Biomass&#039; solar wing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Deploying_Biomass_solar_wing_card_full.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Timelapse video showing engineers at Airbus&#8217; facilities in France carrying out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Applications\/Observing_the_Earth\/FutureEO\/Biomass\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Biomass<\/a>&#8216; tricky solar array deployment test &#8211; tricky because this is done in the cleanroom where gravity prevails and so this means that the test needs a rather complicated setup; of course, when it happens for real after the satellite has been injected into orbit, it will be free of gravity.<\/p>\n<p>The solar array is a single wing comprising four panels. The panels open from the side of the satellite via a yoke, and once fully deployed the four panels rotate to a fixed angle. Outstretched, the wing has an area of just over five square metres and generates the power that the satellite needs.<\/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\/2023\/02\/Deploying_Biomass_solar_wing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Deploying Biomass&#8217; solar wing<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timelapse video showing engineers at Airbus&#8217; facilities in France carrying out Biomass&#8216; tricky solar array deployment test &#8211; tricky because this is done in the cleanroom where gravity prevails and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":748919,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748918","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\/748918","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=748918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/748919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=748918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=748918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=748918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}