{"id":150060,"date":"2022-11-13T15:25:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T21:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/ugandas-new-satellite-contains-equipment-to-3d-print-human-tissue-in-orbit"},"modified":"2022-11-13T15:25:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T21:25:55","slug":"ugandas-new-satellite-contains-equipment-to-3d-print-human-tissue-in-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/ugandas-new-satellite-contains-equipment-to-3d-print-human-tissue-in-orbit","title":{"rendered":"Uganda\u2019s New Satellite Contains Equipment to 3D Print Human Tissue in Orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ugandas-new-satellite-contains-equipment-to-3d-print-human-tissue-in-orbit2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the help of NASA and Japan, Uganda has officially become a spacefaring nation \u2014 and its newly-launched PearlAfricaSat-1 craft has some pretty nifty tech onboard.<\/p>\n<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/nilepost.co.ug\/2022\/11\/07\/ugandas-satellite-successfully-launched-into-the-space\/\" class=\"\">Uganda-based <em>Nile Post<\/em> reports<\/a>, the satellite launched out of NASA\u2019s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport facility in Virginia on the morning of November 7 will not only provide important agricultural and security monitoring features for the developing nation, but will also conduct experiments involving the 3D printing of human tissue.<\/p>\n<p>Per the Ugandan news site, the tissues printed on PearlAfricaSat-1 will be used in research into the effects microgravity has on ovary function \u2014 and as <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/uganda-will-now-be-printing-3d-human-tissue-in-space-1849756233\" class=\"\"><em>Quartz<\/em> notes in its write-up<\/a> of the NASA and Japan-supported mission, the microgravity aspect of the experiments is key because \u201cbioprinting\u201d human organs is difficult to achieve with Earth\u2019s gravity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the help of NASA and Japan, Uganda has officially become a spacefaring nation \u2014 and its newly-launched PearlAfricaSat-1 craft has some pretty nifty tech onboard. As the Uganda-based Nile Post reports, the satellite launched out of NASA\u2019s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport facility in Virginia on the morning of November 7 will not only provide important [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1503,11,1506,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-bioprinting","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150060","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}