{"id":82603,"date":"2012-08-23T00:37:19","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T16:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/postgraduate-students-build-south-africas-first-nanosatellite\/"},"modified":"2012-08-23T00:37:19","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T16:37:19","slug":"postgraduate-students-build-south-africas-first-nanosatellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/postgraduate-students-build-south-africas-first-nanosatellite\/","title":{"rendered":"Postgraduate Students Build South Africa\u2019s First Nanosatellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[08-22-12] <b>The Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) <\/b>in South Africa has designed and built the country\u2019s first nanosatellite that will be launched into space from Russia in November, CPUT announced Aug. 21.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;CPUT\u2019s ZACube-1 was built by postgraduate students of the <b>French South African Institute of Technology (F\u2019SATI)<\/b>. ZACube-1 will be used for space science experiments and its activities would be monitored by F\u2019SATI\u2019s ground station. The satellite is 10 centimeters cubed in size and weighs just 1.2 kilograms.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cZACube-1 is a significant milestone for South Africa,\u201d F\u2019SATI Program Director Robert van Zyl said in a statement. \u201cThe human capacity development, technology innovation and science born from ZACube-1 far exceeds its size and will motivate and inspire future young generations to reach for the stars.\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[08-22-12] The Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) in South Africa has designed and built the country\u2019s first nanosatellite that will be launched into space from Russia in November, CPUT announced Aug. 21. &nbsp; &nbsp;CPUT\u2019s ZACube-1 was built by postgraduate students of the French South African Institute of Technology (F\u2019SATI). ZACube-1 will be used for [&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-82603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82603"}],"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=82603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}