{"id":752580,"date":"2023-04-06T06:43:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=752580"},"modified":"2023-04-06T06:43:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T10:43:00","slug":"europes-biggest-test-chamber-for-space-antennas-takes-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=752580","title":{"rendered":"Europe\u2019s biggest test chamber for space antennas takes shape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Building_Hertz_2.0_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Building Hertz 2.0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Antennas and radio frequency systems for space are growing larger and more powerful, so to keep pace ESA\u2019s ground-based test facilities are scaling up too. A construction project underway beside the dunes of the North Sea marks the expansion of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/About_Us\/ESTEC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ESTEC<\/a> technical centre in the Netherlands with the addition of Europe\u2019s largest antenna and radio-frequency payload test chamber \u2013 Hertz 2.0.<\/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\/Europe_s_biggest_test_chamber_for_space_antennas_takes_shape\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Europe\u2019s biggest test chamber for space antennas takes shape<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space Engineering &amp; Technology&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antennas and radio frequency systems for space are growing larger and more powerful, so to keep pace ESA\u2019s ground-based test facilities are scaling up too. A construction project underway beside&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":752581,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752580","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\/752580","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=752580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/752581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=752580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=752580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=752580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}