{"id":766775,"date":"2023-09-27T07:28:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T11:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=766775"},"modified":"2023-09-27T07:28:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T11:28:00","slug":"vegas-fuel-free-cubesats-to-keep-formation-with-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=766775","title":{"rendered":"Vega&#039;s fuel-free CubeSats to keep formation with wings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ANSER_CubeSats_in_formation_card_full.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Spain\u2019s trio of ANSER CubeSats, due to fly on Europe\u2019s next Vega launcher, will fly like a flock of birds in orbit \u2013 in more ways than one. Keeping in formation by following their leader, the three shoebox-sized satellite will image Iberian waters as if they are a single standard-sized mission. And they will unfurl wing-like flaps to maintain their relative positions, surfing on the scanty airflow at the top of Earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/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\/Vega_s_fuel-free_CubeSats_to_keep_formation_with_wings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vega&#8217;s fuel-free CubeSats to keep formation with wings<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space Engineering &amp; Technology&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain\u2019s trio of ANSER CubeSats, due to fly on Europe\u2019s next Vega launcher, will fly like a flock of birds in orbit \u2013 in more ways than one. Keeping in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":766776,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-766775","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\/766775","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=766775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/766776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=766775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=766775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=766775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}