{"id":91878,"date":"2019-06-10T12:42:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T19:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/kicksat-our-goal-is-to-dramatically-lower-the-cost-of-spaceflight-making-it-easy-enough-and-affordable-enough-for-anyone-to-explore-space"},"modified":"2019-06-10T12:42:53","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T19:42:53","slug":"kicksat-our-goal-is-to-dramatically-lower-the-cost-of-spaceflight-making-it-easy-enough-and-affordable-enough-for-anyone-to-explore-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/kicksat-our-goal-is-to-dramatically-lower-the-cost-of-spaceflight-making-it-easy-enough-and-affordable-enough-for-anyone-to-explore-space","title":{"rendered":"KickSat: Our goal is to dramatically lower the cost of spaceflight, making it easy enough and affordable enough for anyone to explore space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/kicksat3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We can do this by shrinking the size and mass of the spacecraft, allowing many to be launched together.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Sprite\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/kicksat2.jpg\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The Sprite is a tiny (3.5 by 3.5 centimeter) single-board spacecraft. It has a microcontroller, radio, and solar cells and is capable of carrying single-chip sensors, such as thermometers, magnetometers, gyroscopes, and accelerometers. To lower costs, Sprites are designed to be deployed hundreds at a time in low Earth orbit and to simultaneously communicate with a ground station receiver.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kicksat.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can do this by shrinking the size and mass of the spacecraft, allowing many to be launched together. The Sprite is a tiny (3.5 by 3.5 centimeter) single-board spacecraft. It has a microcontroller, radio, and solar cells and is capable of carrying single-chip sensors, such as thermometers, magnetometers, gyroscopes, and accelerometers. To lower costs, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1633,1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-solar-power","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91878","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\/526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}