{"id":12544,"date":"2015-05-22T11:01:33","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T11:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=12544"},"modified":"2015-05-22T11:02:48","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T11:02:48","slug":"cubesats-launched-x-37b-spaceplane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/front-page-news\/2015\/05\/22\/cubesats-launched-x-37b-spaceplane\/","title":{"rendered":"CubeSats launch with X-37B spaceplane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday a super-secret US military unmanned spaceplane was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.<\/p>\n<p>Also aboard the rocket were a number of CubeSats, some of which included amateur radio payloads.<\/p>\n<p>BRICSat-P, designed to test a novel propulsion system, carries an APRS transponder with a 145MHz uplink and 457MHz downlink.<\/p>\n<p>It also has a PSK32 transponder that has a 10m uplink and UHF downlink.<\/p>\n<p>The Planetary Society\u2019s LightSail-A has a 9600bps FSK AX.25 packet radio downlink on 437.435MHz.<\/p>\n<p>Amateurs are asked to forward any data they collect from this satellite to the contact details at <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/JD-lightsail\" target=\"_blank\">tinyurl.com\/JD-lightsail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More information on all of the CubeSats aboard the launch can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/20-may-launch\/\" target=\"_blank\">tinyurl.com\/20-may-launch<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday a super-secret US military unmanned spaceplane was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Also aboard the rocket were a number of CubeSats, some of which included amateur radio payloads. BRICSat-P, designed to test a novel propulsion system, carries an APRS transponder with a 145MHz uplink and 457MHz downlink. It also has a [&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-12544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12544","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=12544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}