Zone of silence: Testing satellite antennas

Friday, April 12, 2013 - 08:00 in Astronomy & Space

(Phys.org) —Satellite engineers learn to get used to the weirdly hushed interior of the Compact Payload Test Range in ESA's ESTEC technical centre area, in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. In this zone of silence, satellite antennas are tested ahead of launch.

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