{"id":8319,"date":"2013-08-30T14:31:16","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T14:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=8319"},"modified":"2013-08-30T14:31:43","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T14:31:43","slug":"uk-cubesat-due-for-november-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2013\/08\/30\/uk-cubesat-due-for-november-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"UK CubeSat due for November launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AMSAT-UK FUNcube-1 CubeSat carrying a 435\/145MHz SSB\/CW transponder remains on schedule for a November launch. Every CubeSat needs to have the capability to charge its onboard batteries when in its launch pod. This means having a suitable battery charger and it needs something quite special to be certain that there is no risk of overcharging or other disaster. Wouter, PA3WEG has designed and constructed such a charger for FUNcube-1. It can be set to charge the lithium-ion battery to the best voltage for long term storage, approx 7.6 volts, and can also be used to enable the final pre-launch testing of the spacecraft and its flight software before launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AMSAT-UK FUNcube-1 CubeSat carrying a 435\/145MHz SSB\/CW transponder remains on schedule for a November launch. Every CubeSat needs to have the capability to charge its onboard batteries when in its launch pod. This means having a suitable battery charger and it needs something quite special to be certain that there is no risk of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8319","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=8319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}