{"id":660465,"date":"2020-07-10T09:17:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T13:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=660465"},"modified":"2020-07-10T09:17:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T13:17:07","slug":"lunart-lunar-amateur-radio-transponder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=660465","title":{"rendered":"LunART- Lunar Amateur Radio Transponder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/07\/lunart.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"34087\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2020\/07\/10\/lunart-lunar-amateur-radio-transponder\/lunart\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/07\/lunart.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1259,711\" 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;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"LunART\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;LunART&lt;\/p&gt;&#010;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/07\/lunart.jpg?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/07\/lunart.jpg?w=593\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-34087\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/lunart.jpg\" alt=\"LunART\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The European Space Agency (ESA) website has published a <a href=\"https:\/\/ideas.esa.int\/servlet\/hype\/IMT?userAction=Browse&amp;templateName=&amp;documentId=81f70b2b01f6993c1b76fb6b572ee6c5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proposal<\/a> by radio amateurs from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amsatdl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AMSAT-DL<\/a><\/strong> for <strong>LunART<\/strong> (Lunar Amateur Radio Transponder): a Communications Platform on the Large European Lander to support communication and payload experiments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter G\u00fclzow DB2OS<\/strong> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DD1US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Matthias Bopp DD1US<\/strong><\/a> say a LunART Communications Platform on the Large European Lander will support direct communication with earth through amateur radio frequencies in the microwave bands, support University and Student Payloads with direct access to their experiments, allow Radio Science for a huge community of radio amateur operators and scientists worldwide. It would also provide an important back-up communication capability and capacity during emergency or when ESA network is busy, for example during non-critical times.<\/p>\n<p>Read the proposal at <a href=\"https:\/\/ideas.esa.int\/servlet\/hype\/IMT?userAction=Browse&amp;templateName=&amp;documentId=81f70b2b01f6993c1b76fb6b572ee6c5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/ideas.esa.int\/servlet\/hype\/IMT?userAction=Browse&amp;templateName=&amp;documentId=81f70b2b01f6993c1b76fb6b572ee6c5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2020\/07\/10\/lunart-lunar-amateur-radio-transponder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">LunART- Lunar Amateur Radio Transponder<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Amsat UK&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Space Agency (ESA) website has published a proposal by radio amateurs from AMSAT-DL for LunART (Lunar Amateur Radio Transponder): a Communications Platform on the Large European Lander to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660465","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\/660465","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=660465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660465\/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=660465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=660465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=660465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}