{"id":235388,"date":"2015-10-20T12:10:52","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T16:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/?p=27039"},"modified":"2015-10-20T12:10:52","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T16:10:52","slug":"astro-pi-launch-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=235388","title":{"rendered":"Astro Pi launch changed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/12\/s300_astropilogo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-24355 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/12\/s300_astropilogo.jpg?w=593\" alt=\"Astro Pi Logo\"   \/><\/a>Two specially augmented Raspberry Pi&#8217;s called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/blog\/astro-pi-mission-update-7-launch-vehicle-changed\/\" >Astro Pi<\/a>&#8216;s were planned to fly with UK astronaut <strong>Tim Peake KG5BVI<\/strong> to the International Space Station (ISS) on December 15.<\/p>\n<p>On the ISS the Astro Pi&#8217;s are planned to run experimental Python programs written by school-age students; the results will be downloaded back to Earth and made available online for all to see. It is hoped that subsequently one of them will be used to provide a video source for the amateur radio <a href=\"http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/satellites\/hamtv-on-the-iss\/\" >HamTV<\/a> transmitter in the ISS Columbus module.<\/p>\n<p>It appears the amount of cargo on Tim&#8217;s Soyuz flight was overbooked so the Astro Pi&#8217;s will instead fly to the ISS on an Orbital Sciences\u2019 Cygnus cargo freighter. The launch is currently planned for December 3 at 22:48 UT.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story on the Raspberry Pi site<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/blog\/astro-pi-mission-update-7-launch-vehicle-changed\/\" >https:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/blog\/astro-pi-mission-update-7-launch-vehicle-changed\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HamTV <a href=\"http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/satellites\/hamtv-on-the-iss\/\" >http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/satellites\/hamtv-on-the-iss\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=amsat-uk.org&#038;blog=41081109&#038;post=27039&#038;subd=ukamsat&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two specially augmented Raspberry Pi&#8217;s called Astro Pi&#8216;s were planned to fly with UK astronaut Tim Peake KG5BVI to the International Space Station (ISS) on December 15. On the ISS the Astro Pi&#8217;s are planned to run experimental Python programs &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2015\/10\/20\/astro-pi-launch-changed\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&#8594;<\/span><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=amsat-uk.org&#038;blog=41081109&#038;post=27039&#038;subd=ukamsat&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-AMSAT"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}