{"id":354501,"date":"2017-08-04T11:49:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T15:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/?p=31659"},"modified":"2017-08-04T11:49:22","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T15:49:22","slug":"satellite-has-deployable-vhf-crossed-yagi-antenna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=354501","title":{"rendered":"Satellite has deployable VHF crossed Yagi antenna"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-shortcode=\"caption\" id=\"attachment_31660\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/08\/norsat-2-in-space-picturing-actual-deployed-antenna_credit-space-norway-as_400x350.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"31660\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2017\/08\/04\/satellite-deployable-vhf-yagi\/norsat-2-in-space-picturing-actual-deployed-antenna_credit-space-norway-as_400x350\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/08\/norsat-2-in-space-picturing-actual-deployed-antenna_credit-space-norway-as_400x350.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"400,350\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"NORsat-2-in-space-picturing-actual-deployed-antenna_credit-Space-Norway-AS_400x350\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;NORsat-2 in space deploying its antenna. (Credit: Space Norway AS)&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/08\/norsat-2-in-space-picturing-actual-deployed-antenna_credit-space-norway-as_400x350.jpg?w=300&#038;h=263\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/08\/norsat-2-in-space-picturing-actual-deployed-antenna_credit-space-norway-as_400x350.jpg?w=400\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31660\" src=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/08\/norsat-2-in-space-picturing-actual-deployed-antenna_credit-space-norway-as_400x350.jpg?w=300&#038;h=263\" alt=\"NORsat-2 in space deploying its antenna. (Credit: Space Norway AS)\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/08\/norsat-2-in-space-picturing-actual-deployed-antenna_credit-space-norway-as_400x350.jpg?w=300&amp;h=263 300w, https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/08\/norsat-2-in-space-picturing-actual-deployed-antenna_credit-space-norway-as_400x350.jpg?w=150&amp;h=131 150w, https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/08\/norsat-2-in-space-picturing-actual-deployed-antenna_credit-space-norway-as_400x350.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">NORsat-2 in space deploying its antenna. (Credit: Space Norway AS)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Radio amateurs <strong>Sean Hum VA3SHV<\/strong> and <strong>Jeff Nicholls VA3NGJ<\/strong> worked on the design for a deployable VHF crossed Yagi antenna on the recently launched NORsat-2.<\/p>\n<p>The very high frequency (VHF) antenna was designed to unfold from the CubeSat after receiving a command from the Norwegian Space Center to deploy once in orbit. \u201cThis antenna is a completely new type of deployable antenna \u2014 it unfolds to be more than three times as large as the satellite that took it into orbit,\u201d says Hum. \u201cThis is the first time that a deployable antenna of this type has been contemplated and successfully used as a main mission antenna for a CubeSat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On July 20, cameras on board the CubeSat confirmed the successful deployment of the antenna.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at <a href=\"http:\/\/news.engineering.utoronto.ca\/u-t-engineering-designed-cubesats-novel-deployable-antenna-launched-orbit\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/news.engineering.utoronto.ca\/u-t-engineering-designed-cubesats-novel-deployable-antenna-launched-orbit\/<\/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=31659&#038;%23038;subd=ukamsat&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radio amateurs Sean Hum VA3SHV and Jeff Nicholls VA3NGJ worked on the design for a deployable VHF crossed Yagi antenna on the recently launched NORsat-2. The very high frequency (VHF) antenna was designed to unfold from the CubeSat after receiving &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2017\/08\/04\/satellite-deployable-vhf-yagi\/\">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=31659&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-354501","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\/354501","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=354501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366843,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354501\/revisions\/366843"}],"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=354501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}