{"id":239178,"date":"2016-01-21T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=3ebc57676e2865091838b9adafd72784"},"modified":"2016-01-21T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T23:00:00","slug":"esa-euronews-cubesat-a-satellite-in-a-shoe-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=239178","title":{"rendered":"ESA Euronews: CubeSat, a satellite in a shoe box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2016\/01\/esa_euronews_cubesat_a_satellite_in_a_shoe_box\/15773900-3-eng-GB\/ESA_Euronews_CubeSat_a_satellite_in_a_shoe_box_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nTiny satellites the size of a small cube, jam-packed with the most advanced nanotechnologies: is this the future of space missions?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTo find out, ESA Euronews went to Tallinn, Estonia, where students at the Mektory Space Centre are preparing the launch of their first nanosatellite.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNanosatellites \u2013 tiny cubes of 10cm x 10cm x 10cm, full of nanotechnologies \u2014 are going to be more and more important in the future of space exploration, from Mars missions, to the surveillance of asteroids, which could potentially be dangerous for our planet.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlso known as CubeSats these tiny satellites open up a whole world of possibilities for those who want to explore space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2016\/01\/esa_euronews_cubesat_a_satellite_in_a_shoe_box\/15773900-3-eng-GB\/ESA_Euronews_CubeSat_a_satellite_in_a_shoe_box_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nTiny satellites the size of a small cube, jam-packed with the most advanced nanotechnologies: is this the future of space missions?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTo find out, ESA Euronews went to Tallinn, Estonia, where students at the Mektory Space Centre are preparing the launch of their first nanosatellite.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNanosatellites &ndash; tiny cubes of 10cm x 10cm x 10cm, full of nanotechnologies &mdash; are going to be more and more important in the future of space exploration, from Mars missions, to the surveillance of asteroids, which could potentially be dangerous for our planet.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlso known as CubeSats these tiny satellites open up a whole world of possibilities for those who want to explore space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239178","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239179,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239178\/revisions\/239179"}],"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=239178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}