{"id":12489,"date":"2015-05-08T14:47:31","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T14:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=12489"},"modified":"2015-05-08T14:47:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T14:47:31","slug":"new-funcube-comms-package-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/front-page-news\/2015\/05\/08\/new-funcube-comms-package-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"New FUNcube comms package to launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AMSAT-UK and AMSAT-NL have announced that a new FUNcube communications package, based on the British-designed FUNcube-1, has been selected as a major payload for the Nayif-1 CubeSat mission.<\/p>\n<p>This 1U mission is intended to provide Emirati students with a tool to design and test systems in space.<\/p>\n<p>It is being developed by the Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology in partnership with American University of Sharjah.<\/p>\n<p>It is expected that this payload will provide a large amount of valuable environmental data from space together with a new, enhanced, UHF to VHF linear transponder.<\/p>\n<p>The launch is scheduled to take place towards the end of this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMSAT-UK and AMSAT-NL have announced that a new FUNcube communications package, based on the British-designed FUNcube-1, has been selected as a major payload for the Nayif-1 CubeSat mission. This 1U mission is intended to provide Emirati students with a tool to design and test systems in space. It is being developed by the Emirates Institution [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}