{"id":239774,"date":"2016-03-03T12:23:57","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T16:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/?p=28231"},"modified":"2016-03-03T12:23:57","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T16:23:57","slug":"school-sstv-cubesat-to-deploy-from-iss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=239774","title":{"rendered":"School SSTV CubeSat to deploy from ISS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-shortcode=\"caption\" id=\"attachment_28233\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28233\" src=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/03\/stm-students-designing-antenna-to-receive-data-from-stmsat-1-credit-stm.jpg?w=593\" alt=\"STM students designing antenna to receive data from STMSat-1 - Credit STM\"   \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">STM students designing antenna to receive data from STMSat-1 &#8211; Credit STM<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A Slow Scan TV (SSTV) CubeSat developed by students at Saint Thomas More Cathedral School (STM) in Arlington, VA, is set to be deployed from the International Space Station on March 7 between 8-10am EST.<\/p>\n<div data-shortcode=\"caption\" id=\"attachment_28235\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28235\" src=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/03\/stm-student-using-amateur-radio-station.jpg?w=593\" alt=\"STM student using amateur radio station\"   \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">STM student using amateur radio station<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>STM is thought to be the first Elementary school to build their own satellite, even Pre-Kindergarten, Kindergarten, and First Grade students were involved in the project.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite, a 1U CubeSat called STMSat-1, will transmit an SSTV signal on 437.800 MHz.<\/p>\n<p>Middle School Students took the initiative to begin exploring how to receive data from the CubeSat and formed a Ham Radio Club. There, they learned the basics of operating a ham radio station and explored Slow Scan Television as an option for receiving images once the satellite is deployed.<\/p>\n<p>How Did 400 Grade School Students Built A Nano-Satellite?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jewelbots.tumblr.com\/post\/134465599599\/how-did-400-grade-school-students-built-a\" >http:\/\/jewelbots.tumblr.com\/post\/134465599599\/how-did-400-grade-school-students-built-a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>STMSat-1<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/STMSAT11\" >https:\/\/twitter.com\/STMSAT11<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/stmsat1\/\" >https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/stmsat1\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stmsat-1.org\/\" >http:\/\/www.stmsat-1.org\/<\/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;%23038;post=28231&#038;%23038;subd=ukamsat&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Slow Scan TV (SSTV) CubeSat developed by students at Saint Thomas More Cathedral School (STM) in Arlington, VA, is set to be deployed from the International Space Station on March 7 between 8-10am EST. STM is thought to be &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2016\/03\/03\/school-sstv-cubesat-to-deploy-from-iss\/\">Continue reading <span>&rarr;<\/span><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=amsat-uk.org&amp;blog=41081109&amp;post=28231&amp;subd=ukamsat&amp;ref=&amp;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-239774","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\/239774","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=239774"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239915,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239774\/revisions\/239915"}],"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=239774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}