{"id":19151,"date":"2015-11-07T22:47:42","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T06:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/want-your-own-personal-satellite-reaching-space-is-becoming-relatively-cheap"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:19:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:19:56","slug":"want-your-own-personal-satellite-reaching-space-is-becoming-relatively-cheap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/want-your-own-personal-satellite-reaching-space-is-becoming-relatively-cheap","title":{"rendered":"Want Your Own Personal Satellite? Reaching Space Is Becoming (Relatively) Cheap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/want-your-own-personal-satellite-reaching-space-is-becoming-relatively-cheap.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Satellites are shrinking, and so is the cost to build them and shoot them up into orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Cubesats, which weigh 1.33 kilograms or less, <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2013\/06\/23\/tiny-cubesat-satellites-spur-revolution-in-space\/\">have become popular<\/a> for researchers with grants and federal agencies like NASA. But their price, while lower than clunky old-school satellites, has remained out of reach for those who can\u2019t pay a mortgage\u2019s worth of money and don\u2019t know how to hitch a ride on a rocket. Enter picosats and femtosats, Cubesats\u2019s smaller, cheaper siblings\u2014and the companies that will help you send them to space.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2015\/11\/06\/a-personal-satellite-for-christmas-reaching-space-is-becoming-relatively-cheap\/?utm_content=bufferddab9&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satellites are shrinking, and so is the cost to build them and shoot them up into orbit. Cubesats, which weigh 1.33 kilograms or less, have become popular for researchers with grants and federal agencies like NASA. But their price, while lower than clunky old-school satellites, has remained out of reach for those who can\u2019t pay [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19151","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69227,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19151\/revisions\/69227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}