{"id":464613,"date":"2018-04-17T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=4915463e13dd2cf61959d1d12b59d071"},"modified":"2018-04-17T09:10:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T13:10:00","slug":"gomx-4-cubesat-commissioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=464613","title":{"rendered":"GomX-4 CubeSat commissioning"},"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\/2018\/04\/gomx-4_cubesat_commissioning\/17456095-1-eng-GB\/GomX-4_CubeSat_commissioning_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA\u2019s latest mission has completed its in-orbit commissioning. The cereal-box-sized GomX-4B performed a transfer of data across hundreds of kilometres of space from its Danish twin.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBoth of the nanosatellites were built by GomSpace in Denmark. GomX-4A, financed by the Danish Ministry of Defence, is focused on monitoring and imaging Denmark\u2019s Arctic territory. The ESA-backed GomX-4B is testing a micro-propulsion system as well as an inter-satellite radio link with its counterpart. It also carries other technology payloads, including a hyperspectral imager.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCubeSats are small satellites based around standard 10cm cubic units, but these two \u2018six-unit\u2019 CubeSats still required weeks of in-orbit testing once they reached space, just like full-sized missions.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nGomSpace showed the satellites in action for the first time during a live press conference from their Aalborg headquarters on 12 April 2018. The retrieval process from GomX-4A to GomX-4B \u2013 and vice versa \u2013 down to Earth went according to schedule, confirming the satellite pair can share both data and images and send them home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2018\/04\/gomx-4_cubesat_commissioning\/17456095-1-eng-GB\/GomX-4_CubeSat_commissioning_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nESA&rsquo;s latest mission has completed its in-orbit commissioning. The cereal-box-sized GomX-4B performed a transfer of data across hundreds of kilometres of space from its Danish twin.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBoth of the nanosatellites were built by GomSpace in Denmark. GomX-4A, financed by the Danish Ministry of Defence, is focused on monitoring and imaging Denmark&rsquo;s Arctic territory. The ESA-backed GomX-4B is testing a micro-propulsion system as well as an inter-satellite radio link with its counterpart. It also carries other technology payloads, including a hyperspectral imager.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCubeSats are small satellites based around standard 10cm cubic units, but these two &lsquo;six-unit&rsquo; CubeSats still required weeks of in-orbit testing once they reached space, just like full-sized missions.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nGomSpace showed the satellites in action for the first time during a live press conference from their Aalborg headquarters on 12 April 2018. The retrieval process from GomX-4A to GomX-4B &ndash; and vice versa &ndash; down to Earth went according to schedule, confirming the satellite pair can share both data and images and send them home.<\/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-464613","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\/464613","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=464613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464614,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464613\/revisions\/464614"}],"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=464613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=464613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=464613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}