{"id":243503,"date":"2016-11-07T17:10:34","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T21:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/?p=30826"},"modified":"2016-11-07T17:10:34","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T21:10:34","slug":"radio-hams-femtosats-project-wins-iss-design-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=243503","title":{"rendered":"Radio ham\u2019s Femtosats project wins ISS Design Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/femtosats-deploying-from-3d-printed-spacecraft.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-30827\" src=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/femtosats-deploying-from-3d-printed-spacecraft.jpg?w=300&#038;h=169\" alt=\"Femtosats deploying from 3D printed spacecraft\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/femtosats-deploying-from-3d-printed-spacecraft.jpg?w=300&amp;h=169 300w, https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/femtosats-deploying-from-3d-printed-spacecraft.jpg?w=600&amp;h=338 600w, https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/femtosats-deploying-from-3d-printed-spacecraft.jpg?w=150&amp;h=85 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Radio amateur <strong>Andy Filo KJ6ZGI<\/strong> has been announced as winner of the ISS Design Competition organised by component distributor <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mouser.com\/contests\/iss-project-contest?entry_id=131259785\" >Mouser<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Tech Crunch reports nearly 250 ideas were submitted, everything from tools to toys to scientific instruments. The proposals were vetted and submitted for judgment by tech-savvy astronaut and former ISS resident <strong>Col. Chris Hadfield VA3OOG<\/strong>, and <strong>Grant Imahara<\/strong>, of Mythbusters fame.<\/p>\n<p>Andy&#8217;s winning entry was for a 3D printed &#8220;mothership&#8221; to launch Femosats into space. Femtosats are 30mm square and 4mm thick self contained satellites that extend the Internet of Things to Space.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Tech Crunch story at <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/11\/07\/3d-printed-satellite-launcher-heads-to-iss-with-blessing-of-chris-hadfield-and-grant-imahara\/\" >https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/11\/07\/3d-printed-satellite-launcher-heads-to-iss-with-blessing-of-chris-hadfield-and-grant-imahara\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mouser ISS Design Competition winners <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mouser.com\/contests\/iss-project-contest?entry_id=131259785\" >http:\/\/www.mouser.com\/contests\/iss-project-contest?entry_id=131259785<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Andy KJ6ZGI has previous worked with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zacinaction\" >Zac Manchester KD2BHC<\/a><\/strong> on the KickSat project<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/makezine.com\/2014\/04\/11\/how-to-kick-a-sat\/\" >http:\/\/makezine.com\/2014\/04\/11\/how-to-kick-a-sat\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=amsat-uk.org&#038;blog=41081109&#038;%23038;post=30826&#038;%23038;subd=ukamsat&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radio amateur Andy Filo KJ6ZGI has been announced as winner of the ISS Design Competition organised by component distributor Mouser. Tech Crunch reports nearly 250 ideas were submitted, everything from tools to toys to scientific instruments. The proposals were vetted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2016\/11\/07\/ham-radio-femtosats-iss-competition\/\">Continue reading <span>&rarr;<\/span><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=amsat-uk.org&amp;blog=41081109&amp;post=30826&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-243503","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\/243503","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=243503"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243677,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243503\/revisions\/243677"}],"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=243503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}