{"id":729391,"date":"2022-07-12T07:58:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T11:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=729391"},"modified":"2022-07-12T07:58:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T11:58:00","slug":"ai-cubesat-headed-to-van-allen-belts-on-vega-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=729391","title":{"rendered":"AI CubeSat headed to Van Allen Belts on Vega-C"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Trisat-R_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Trisat-R\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An ESA-financed nanosatellite, due to lift off aboard the inaugural flight of Vega-C this Wednesday, will operate an AI system in the harsh, radiation-wracked environment of the Van Allen Belts. The shoebox-sized Trisat-R \u2013 one of six \u2018CubeSats\u2019 on the flight, headed up to a rarely-trafficked close to 6000 km altitude orbit \u2013 is also carrying radiation-detection payloads from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.home.cern\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CERN<\/a>, the European Council for Nuclear Research, Slovenian firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skylabs.si\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SkyLab<\/a>s and ESA itself.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/AI_CubeSat_headed_to_Van_Allen_Belts_on_Vega-C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AI CubeSat headed to Van Allen Belts on Vega-C<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space Engineering &amp; Technology&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ESA-financed nanosatellite, due to lift off aboard the inaugural flight of Vega-C this Wednesday, will operate an AI system in the harsh, radiation-wracked environment of the Van Allen Belts.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":729392,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729391","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\/729391","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=729391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/729392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=729391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=729391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=729391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}