{"id":767957,"date":"2023-10-05T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=767957"},"modified":"2023-10-05T10:10:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T14:10:00","slug":"vegas-pretty-cubesat-unlocking-satnav-for-earth-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=767957","title":{"rendered":"Vega\u2019s PRETTY CubeSat: unlocking satnav for Earth data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PRETTY_is_testing_slant_reflectometry_card_full.png\" alt=\"PRETTY is testing 'slant' reflectometry\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our planet is being continuously bathed in radio signals from satnav satellites \u2013 which are useful for much more than just navigation. Dedicated space missions acquire these signal reflections to amass valuable environmental information. The shoebox-sized PRETTY CubeSat, <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.arianespace.com\/arianespaces-next-vega-mission\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">flying on Europe\u2019s next Vega launcher<\/a>, will investigate a new frequency and novel observation angle to better measure the rate of climate change \u2013 at the same time as gathering radiation data on its surrounding space environment.<\/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_PRETTY_CubeSat_unlocking_satnav_for_Earth_data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vega\u2019s PRETTY CubeSat: unlocking satnav for Earth data<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our planet is being continuously bathed in radio signals from satnav satellites \u2013 which are useful for much more than just navigation. Dedicated space missions acquire these signal reflections to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":767958,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-767957","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\/767957","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=767957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/767958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=767957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=767957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=767957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}