{"id":635153,"date":"2019-10-23T05:01:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T09:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=635153"},"modified":"2019-10-23T05:01:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T09:01:40","slug":"itty-bitty-satellites-take-on-big-time-science-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=635153","title":{"rendered":"Itty-Bitty Satellites Take On Big-Time Science Missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/pia22317_wide-bf1c688093a0a3eb7f65de987084d39e97b8f9b1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>CubeSats are only about twice the size of a Rubik&#8217;s Cube. Once dismissed as tools for students learning the principles of aerospace engineering, they&#8217;re now being used for more sophisticated missions.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/npr-rss-pixel-7.png\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/23\/772024008\/itty-bitty-satellites-take-on-big-time-science-missions?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Itty-Bitty Satellites Take On Big-Time Science Missions<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NPR Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CubeSats are only about twice the size of a Rubik&#8217;s Cube. Once dismissed as tools for students learning the principles of aerospace engineering, they&#8217;re now being used for more sophisticated&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635153","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=635153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635153\/revisions"}],"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=635153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=635153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=635153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}