{"id":81809,"date":"2012-12-21T21:11:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T13:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/first-scottish-satellite-to-be-launched-next-year\/"},"modified":"2012-12-21T21:11:13","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T13:11:13","slug":"first-scottish-satellite-to-be-launched-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/first-scottish-satellite-to-be-launched-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"First Scottish Satellite to be Launched Next Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: Clyde Space, United Kingdom, Satellite Launch, CubeSat, Scotland<\/p>\n<p>Publication Date: 12\/20\/2012<\/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=\"219\" height=\"225\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/cubesat1-ai-clydespace.jpeg\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<i>Artist\u2019s impression of UKube-1.<\/i><br \/>\nImage credit: Clyde Space\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Scotland\u2019s first satellite will be launched from a Russian Soyuz-2 rocket next March. The UKube-1 spacecraft, designed and manufactured by <strong>Clyde Space<\/strong>, is a nanosatellite with payloads for measuring plasmaspheric space weather, testing the effects of radiation on space hardware, and for Earth observation. <\/p>\n<p>UKube-1 is currently undergoing the final tests before being shipped to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. This is the first nanosatellite produced by Clyde Space; the company plans to build more in the coming years.  <\/p>\n<p>The project is part of a <strong>UK Space Agency<\/strong> mission, making UKube-1 the pilot test for a collaborative CubeSat program for the industry and academia to perform education projects and research, and test new technologies. The overall mission cost is approximately $1.3 million and it will be supported by three UK ground stations at Strathclyde and Dundee universities. <\/p>\n<p>To accomplish its objectives UKube-1 carries a GPS device, a camera and a new generation imaging sensor. The satellite also has an \u201coutreach\u201d payload, which will allow schoolchildren to interact with it from Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: Clyde Space, United Kingdom, Satellite Launch, CubeSat, Scotland Publication Date: 12\/20\/2012 Artist\u2019s impression of UKube-1. Image credit: Clyde Space Scotland\u2019s first satellite will be launched from a Russian Soyuz-2 rocket next March. The UKube-1 spacecraft, designed and manufactured by Clyde Space, is a nanosatellite with payloads for measuring plasmaspheric space weather, testing the effects [&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-81809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81809"}],"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=81809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}