{"id":102857,"date":"2020-02-25T21:02:40","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T05:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/tissue-box-size-satellite-created-by-rice-university-students-to-help-tackle-space-junk"},"modified":"2020-02-25T21:02:40","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T05:02:40","slug":"tissue-box-size-satellite-created-by-rice-university-students-to-help-tackle-space-junk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/tissue-box-size-satellite-created-by-rice-university-students-to-help-tackle-space-junk","title":{"rendered":"Tissue-box-size satellite created by Rice University students to help tackle space junk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tissue-box-size-satellite-created-by-rice-university-students-to-help-tackle-space-junk2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rice University students are developing a research satellite to help alleviate the space junk orbiting our planet.<\/p>\n<p>The OwlSat CubeSat will collect data over the course of one year to see how extreme ultraviolet radiation, which is always emitted from the sun but becomes more intense during events such as solar flares, can alter a satellite\u2019s path in low-Earth orbit, the area where the International Space Station resides. Better understanding a satellite\u2019s orbit can help prevent collisions that can create space junk, said Ryan Udell, president of Rice University\u2019s chapter of <a href=\"http:\/\/seds.rice.edu\/\">Students for the Exploration and Development of Space<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have a fool-proof way of mapping orbits,\u201d Udell said. \u201cThere are very good predictors out there, but we can\u2019t fully predict it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rice University students are developing a research satellite to help alleviate the space junk orbiting our planet. The OwlSat CubeSat will collect data over the course of one year to see how extreme ultraviolet radiation, which is always emitted from the sun but becomes more intense during events such as solar flares, can alter a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}