{"id":766821,"date":"2023-09-27T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=766821"},"modified":"2023-09-27T12:00:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T16:00:44","slug":"vegas-fuel-free-cubesats-will-use-wings-to-keep-in-formation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=766821","title":{"rendered":"Vega&#039;s fuel-free CubeSats will use wings to keep in formation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spain&#8217;s trio of ANSER CubeSats, due to fly on Europe&#8217;s next Vega launcher, will fly like a flock of birds in orbit\u2014in 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&#8217;s atmosphere.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-09-vega-fuel-free-cubesats-wings-formation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vega&#8217;s fuel-free CubeSats will use wings to keep in formation<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain&#8217;s trio of ANSER CubeSats, due to fly on Europe&#8217;s next Vega launcher, will fly like a flock of birds in orbit\u2014in more ways than one. Keeping in formation by&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-766821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766821","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=766821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766821\/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=766821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=766821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=766821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}