Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Wind satellite survives vacuum

07-02-2018 03:20 PM CET


ESA's Aeolus satellite has been particularly tricky to build. One of the main stumbling blocks has been getting its lasers to work in a vacuum, but recent tests on the satellite show that the vacuum or temperature of space won't get in the way of Aeolus measuring Earth's winds.

 

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