{"id":24430,"date":"2016-04-08T05:47:48","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T12:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/student-designed-femtosats-aim-to-bring-cost-of-satellite-deployment-below-1000"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:32:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:32:26","slug":"student-designed-femtosats-aim-to-bring-cost-of-satellite-deployment-below-1000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/student-designed-femtosats-aim-to-bring-cost-of-satellite-deployment-below-1000","title":{"rendered":"Student-designed \u2018FemtoSats\u2019 aim to bring cost of satellite deployment below $1,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/161656838\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"SunCube miniature satellites\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"\" id=\"fitvid571520\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Got a grand burning a hole in your pocket? You could get a new laptop \u2014 or you could send this tiny, palm-sized satellite to space. That\u2019s what a team of engineers at Arizona State hope, anyway: their \u201cFemtoSats\u201d are meant to be as cheap a space-bound platform as has ever been devised.<\/p>\n<p>At just 3cm per side and 35 grams (that\u2019s about 1.2 inches and 0.077 pounds, dogs of the Imperial system), <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/asunow.asu.edu\/20160406-creativity-asu-suncube-femtosat-space-exploration-for-everyone\">the SunCube 1F is the prototype FemtoSat<\/a>. It\u2019s powered by a salvaged scrap of solar panel (they don\u2019t make them small enough off the shelf), the tiny unit includes propulsion, imaging, communication, and data collection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe design standard bootstraps from the Cal Poly CubeSat standard and is extensible, allowing major customization,\u201d wrote Jekan Thanga, the ASU assistant professor who heads up the project, in an email to TechCrunch.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/04\/07\/student-designed-femtosats-aim-to-bring-cost-of-satellite-deployment-below-1000\/\">http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/04\/07\/student-designed-femtosats-...elow-1000\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got a grand burning a hole in your pocket? You could get a new laptop \u2014 or you could send this tiny, palm-sized satellite to space. That\u2019s what a team of engineers at Arizona State hope, anyway: their \u201cFemtoSats\u201d are meant to be as cheap a space-bound platform as has ever been devised. At just [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-space","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24430","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=24430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62114,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24430\/revisions\/62114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}