{"id":166055,"date":"2023-06-19T21:23:46","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T02:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/diy-picosatellites-hack-chat"},"modified":"2023-06-19T21:23:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T02:23:46","slug":"diy-picosatellites-hack-chat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/diy-picosatellites-hack-chat","title":{"rendered":"DIY Picosatellites Hack Chat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/diy-picosatellites-hack-chat.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Join us on Wednesday, June 21 at noon Pacific for the <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.io\/event\/191521-picosatellites-hack-chat\" target=\"_blank\">DIY Picosatellites Hack Chat<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.io\/hacker\/197454-nathanielquubspace\" target=\"_blank\">Nathaniel Evry<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Building a satellite and putting it in orbit was until very recently something only a nation had the resources to accomplish, and even then only a select few. Oh sure, there were a few amateur satellites that somehow managed to get built on a shoestring budget and hitch a ride into space, and while their stories are deservedly the stuff of legends, satellite construction took a very long time to be democratized.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward a half-dozen or so decades, and things have changed dramatically. Satellite launches are still complex affairs \u2014 it\u2019s still rocket science, after all \u2014 but the advent of the CubeSat format and the increased tempo of launches, both national and commercial, has pushed the barriers to private, low-budget launches way, way down. So much so, in fact, that the phrase \u201cspace startup\u201d is no longer something to snicker about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us on Wednesday, June 21 at noon Pacific for the DIY Picosatellites Hack Chat with Nathaniel Evry! Building a satellite and putting it in orbit was until very recently something only a nation had the resources to accomplish, and even then only a select few. Oh sure, there were a few amateur satellites that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166055","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}