{"id":80605,"date":"2013-07-24T19:05:23","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T11:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ugandas-home-grown-space-program-takes-off\/"},"modified":"2013-07-24T19:05:23","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T11:05:23","slug":"ugandas-home-grown-space-program-takes-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ugandas-home-grown-space-program-takes-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda\u2019s Home-Grown Space Program Takes Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: Uganda, Space Exploration, Probe<br \/>\nPublication: Voanews.com<br \/>\nPublication Date: 07\/24\/2013<\/p>\n<table width=\"150\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" cellpadding=\"6\" cellspacing=\"2\" margin=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"169\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/Uganda.jpg\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><em>Chris Nsamba and his team work on their projects in his mother\u2019s backyard.<br \/>\n            <\/em>Image Credit: African Space Research Program<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Armed with only a team of student volunteers and a workspace in his mother\u2019s backyard, 28-year-old Chris Nsamba has set out to build and launch Uganda\u2019s first space observer.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nAccording to Nsamba, he and his team have been working up to 18 hours a day on the project. With an appearance similar to a beach ball, the probe is equipped with solar panels and a camera. The proposed launch of the observer involves a helium weather balloon to carry the probe up to 120,000 feet, at which point thrusters would be engaged. Nsamba\u2019s probe is functional and thrusters have been tested, and Uganda\u2019s President Yoweri Museveni, has given permission to launch the observer, pending inspection, according to reports.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" align=\"absMiddle\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/FullStoryArrow.png\">&nbsp;Full story<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: Uganda, Space Exploration, Probe Publication: Voanews.com Publication Date: 07\/24\/2013 Chris Nsamba and his team work on their projects in his mother\u2019s backyard. Image Credit: African Space Research Program &nbsp; Armed with only a team of student volunteers and a workspace in his mother\u2019s backyard, 28-year-old Chris Nsamba has set out to build and launch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}