{"id":540313,"date":"2018-10-29T18:11:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T22:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/?p=32504"},"modified":"2018-10-29T18:11:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T22:11:41","slug":"ham-radio-satellites-on-5-euro-coin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=540313","title":{"rendered":"Ham radio satellites on 5 Euro coin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-shortcode=\"caption\" id=\"attachment_32507\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/10\/lithuania-5-euro-gold-coin-2018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"32507\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2018\/10\/29\/ham-radio-satellites-on-5-euro-coin\/lithuania-5-euro-gold-coin-2018\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/10\/lithuania-5-euro-gold-coin-2018.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"791,394\" 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;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Lithuania 5 Euro Gold Coin 2018\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Lithuania 5 Euro Gold Coin 2018&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/10\/lithuania-5-euro-gold-coin-2018.jpg?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/10\/lithuania-5-euro-gold-coin-2018.jpg?w=640&#038;h=319\" class=\"wp-image-32507\" src=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/10\/lithuania-5-euro-gold-coin-2018.jpg?w=640&#038;h=319\" alt=\"Lithuania 5 Euro Gold Coin 2018\" width=\"640\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/10\/lithuania-5-euro-gold-coin-2018.jpg?w=640&amp;h=319 640w, https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/10\/lithuania-5-euro-gold-coin-2018.jpg?w=150&amp;h=75 150w, https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/10\/lithuania-5-euro-gold-coin-2018.jpg?w=300&amp;h=149 300w, https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/10\/lithuania-5-euro-gold-coin-2018.jpg?w=768&amp;h=383 768w, https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/10\/lithuania-5-euro-gold-coin-2018.jpg 791w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lithuania 5 Euro Gold Coin 2018<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Bank of Lithuania (Lietuvos bankas) has released a commemorative gold <a href=\"https:\/\/en.numista.com\/catalogue\/pieces151686.html\"  rel=\"noopener\">5 Euro coin<\/a> featuring the amateur radio satellites LituanicaSAT-1 (LO-78) and LitSAT-1.<\/p>\n<p>The two CubeSats were launched to the International Space Station (ISS) on January 9, 2014 and deployed from the ISS on February 28. LituanicaSAT-1 carried a FM transponder and a camera while LitSat-1 had a linear (SSB\/CW) transponder developed by William Leijenaar PE1RAH.<\/p>\n<p>The face of the gold coin features the Lithuanian coat of arms (Vytis) as a star constellation with LituanicaSAT-1 and LitSAT-1 on the reverse<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Watch A gold coin of 5 euros for technology education<br \/>\n<iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='593' height='334' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-R6Q-quon2Y?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;%23038;fs=1&#038;%23038;autohide=2&#038;%23038;showsearch=0&#038;%23038;showinfo=1&#038;%23038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;%23038;wmode=transparent' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Numista catalogue entry <a href=\"https:\/\/en.numista.com\/catalogue\/pieces151686.html\"  rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/en.numista.com\/catalogue\/pieces151686.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bank of Lithuania (Lietuvos bankas) has released a commemorative gold 5 Euro coin featuring the amateur radio satellites LituanicaSAT-1 (LO-78) and LitSAT-1. The two CubeSats were launched to the International Space Station (ISS) on January 9, 2014 and deployed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2018\/10\/29\/ham-radio-satellites-on-5-euro-coin\/\">Continue reading <span>&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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-540313","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\/540313","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=540313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540314,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540313\/revisions\/540314"}],"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=540313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=540313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=540313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}