{"id":19131,"date":"2018-01-26T14:52:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T14:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=19131"},"modified":"2018-01-26T14:52:45","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T14:52:45","slug":"two-chinese-amateur-cubesats-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2018\/01\/26\/two-chinese-amateur-cubesats-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Chinese amateur CubeSats launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, 19 January 2018 two satellites carrying amateur radio payloads were launched.<\/p>\n<p>Both were developed by amateur students in Hunan province, China.<\/p>\n<p>The satellites, QuanTuTong-1 and Xiaoxiang-2, are 6U CubeSats.<\/p>\n<p>They will operate in the 435, 2400, 5650 and 5830MHz amateur-satellite service bands.<\/p>\n<p>5650MHz is used for uplinks and 5830MHz for downlinks.<\/p>\n<p>Currently only the 435MHz band telemetry beacons are known to be activated.<\/p>\n<p>A further three TY satellites using 5GHz are expected to be launched later in the year.<\/p>\n<p>Further details at <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/GB2RS-0128A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tinyurl.com\/GB2RS-0128A<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, 19 January 2018 two satellites carrying amateur radio payloads were launched. Both were developed by amateur students in Hunan province, China. The satellites, QuanTuTong-1 and Xiaoxiang-2, are 6U CubeSats. They will operate in the 435, 2400, 5650 and 5830MHz amateur-satellite service bands. 5650MHz is used for uplinks and 5830MHz for downlinks. Currently only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19131","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=19131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}