{"id":22616,"date":"2019-06-28T15:05:35","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T15:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=22616"},"modified":"2019-06-28T15:07:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T15:07:01","slug":"lightsail-2-cubesat-to-transmit-morse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2019\/06\/28\/lightsail-2-cubesat-to-transmit-morse\/","title":{"rendered":"LightSail 2 CubeSat to transmit Morse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Planetary Society\u2019s<\/strong><\/a> <em>LightSail 2<\/em> CubeSat, launched on the 25 June 2019, will transmit Morse code from space.<\/p>\n<p>LightSail is a citizen-funded project and the satellite is due to be deployed on the 2 July 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Once deployed, <em>LightSail 2<\/em> will automatically transmit a beacon packet every few seconds, which can be decoded into 238 lines of text telemetry describing the spacecraft&#8217;s health and status, including everything from battery status to solar sail deployment motor state.<\/p>\n<p>Every 45 seconds, the spacecraft will transmit \u2018LS2\u2019 on the spacecraft&#8217;s frequency of 437.025MHz.<\/p>\n<p>Further details at <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ae22jvd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>tinyurl.com\/ae22jvd<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Planetary Society\u2019s LightSail 2 CubeSat, launched on the 25 June 2019, will transmit Morse code from space. LightSail is a citizen-funded project and the satellite is due to be deployed on the 2 July 2019. Once deployed, LightSail 2 will automatically transmit a beacon packet every few seconds, which can be decoded into 238 [&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-22616","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\/22616","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=22616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}