{"id":652171,"date":"2020-04-16T03:50:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T07:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=652171"},"modified":"2020-04-16T03:50:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T07:50:00","slug":"solar-powered-hand-sanitiser-wins-esa-backed-hackathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=652171","title":{"rendered":"Solar-powered hand sanitiser wins ESA-backed hackathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Solar-powered_hand_sanitisation_unit_in_use_card_full.png\" alt=\"Solar-powered hand sanitisation unit in use\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A start-up company that has repurposed upcycled solar cells to generate ultraviolet light to disinfect people\u2019s hands has won \u20ac20\u00a0000 in a hackathon designed to share and rapidly develop ideas to combat the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>More than 12\u00a0000 people from over 100 countries took part in the Global Hack, organised by Estonian-based Garage48 and sponsored by ESA\u2019s business incubation centre in Estonia. Entrants were kept motivated by a recorded message from ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti.<\/p>\n<p>The winners were announced on 12 April.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Applications\/Telecommunications_Integrated_Applications\/Solar-powered_hand_sanitiser_wins_ESA-backed_hackathon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Solar-powered hand sanitiser wins ESA-backed hackathon<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A start-up company that has repurposed upcycled solar cells to generate ultraviolet light to disinfect people\u2019s hands has won \u20ac20\u00a0000 in a hackathon designed to share and rapidly develop ideas&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":652172,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652171","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=652171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/652172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=652171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=652171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=652171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}