{"id":205928,"date":"2025-02-08T19:06:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T01:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/croatias-1st-satellite-captures-its-first-views-of-home-photo"},"modified":"2025-02-08T19:06:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T01:06:41","slug":"croatias-1st-satellite-captures-its-first-views-of-home-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/croatias-1st-satellite-captures-its-first-views-of-home-photo","title":{"rendered":"Croatia\u2019s 1st satellite captures its first views of home (photo)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XOm3teQdyLc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Croatia\u2019s first ever satellite has just beamed to Earth the first image of its homeland.<\/p>\n<p>The <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/24839-satellites.html\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/24839-satellites.html\">satellite<\/a>, called CroCube, is a 1U <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/34324-cubesats.html\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/34324-cubesats.html\">cubesat<\/a> 3.3 by 3.3 by 3.3 inches (10 \u00d7 10 \u00d7 10 centimeters) in size. It launched to space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in late December on the company\u2019s<a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/spacex-launching-30-satellites-on-bandwagon-2-rideshare-mission-early-dec-21\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/spacex-launching-30-satellites-on-bandwagon-2-rideshare-mission-early-dec-21\"> Bandwagon-2 rideshare mission<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Croatia\u2019s first ever satellite has just beamed to Earth the first image of its homeland. The satellite, called CroCube, is a 1U cubesat 3.3 by 3.3 by 3.3 inches (10 \u00d7 10 \u00d7 10 centimeters) in size. It launched to space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in late December on the company\u2019s Bandwagon-2 rideshare [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205928","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=205928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}