{"id":640700,"date":"2019-12-14T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T14:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=640700"},"modified":"2019-12-14T10:25:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T14:25:00","slug":"european-space-agency-issues-challenge-to-radio-amateurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=640700","title":{"rendered":"European Space Agency Issues Challenge to Radio Amateurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p><span>The European Space Agency (ESA) is <strong>challenging radio amateurs<\/strong> (or anyone with appropriate receiving equipment) to hear the first signals from ESA\u2019s OPS-SAT space software laboratory. The spacecraft is set to launch on December 17 into a low-Earth orbit from French Guiana. Once in orbit, the satellite will deploy solar panels and a UHF antenna and begin transmitting. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>OPS-SAT will begin transmitt&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/news\/view\/european-space-agency-issues-challenge-to-radio-amateurs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">European Space Agency Issues Challenge to Radio Amateurs<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ARRL&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Space Agency (ESA) is challenging radio amateurs (or anyone with appropriate receiving equipment) to hear the first signals from ESA\u2019s OPS-SAT space software laboratory. The spacecraft is set&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ARRL"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640700","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=640700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640700\/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=640700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=640700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=640700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}