{"id":21134,"date":"2018-11-30T14:56:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T14:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=21134"},"modified":"2018-11-30T14:56:46","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T14:56:46","slug":"spacex-to-launch-amateur-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/front-page-news\/2018\/11\/30\/spacex-to-launch-amateur-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX to launch amateur satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX has announced that the SSO-A, SmallSat Express mission carrying AMSAT\u2019s Fox-1Cliff is now scheduled to launch on Sunday, 2 December 2018, at 1831:47UTC.<\/p>\n<p>It was previously scheduled to launch on 28 November 2018 but was postponed due to extreme high-altitude winds at Vandenberg Air Force Base.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Fox-1Cliff, the SSO-A mission will carry several other amateur radio satellites, including FUNcube on ESEO, JY1-SAT, K2SAT, and ExseedSat.<\/p>\n<p>The launch window extends for approximately 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Fox-1Cliff has uplinks at UHF and L-band, and downlinks on VHF.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX has announced that the SSO-A, SmallSat Express mission carrying AMSAT\u2019s Fox-1Cliff is now scheduled to launch on Sunday, 2 December 2018, at 1831:47UTC. It was previously scheduled to launch on 28 November 2018 but was postponed due to extreme high-altitude winds at Vandenberg Air Force Base. In addition to Fox-1Cliff, the SSO-A mission will [&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-21134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21134","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=21134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}