{"id":87211,"date":"2010-04-01T19:27:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T11:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/scientists-unveil-space-debris-cleaning-nanosatellite\/"},"modified":"2010-04-01T19:27:45","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T11:27:45","slug":"scientists-unveil-space-debris-cleaning-nanosatellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/scientists-unveil-space-debris-cleaning-nanosatellite\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Unveil Space Debris-Cleaning Nanosatellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[04-01-10] U.K. scientists, funded by <strong>Astrium<\/strong>, have developed a 30-kilogram nanosatellite intended to clear more than 5,500 tons of debris in low-Earth orbit, the University of Surrey announced March 31.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The CubeSail nanosatellite, fitted with a solar sail, is designed to attach to other satellites or launch vehicle upper stages and independently deploy itself to passively de-orbit equipment that has reached the end of its mission. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8220;Following successful in orbit demonstration, the proposed de-orbit system will be offered as a standard de-orbit system for low-Earth orbit missions for satellites with a mass of less than 500 [kilograms] at a very low cost,\u201d Vaios Lappas, lead project researcher at the <strong>Surrey Space Centre<\/strong>, said in a statement.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; CubeSail is scheduled for launch with new satellite in 2011 and is expected to be available for shifting existing debris in 2013. The deployable sail will be used in a demonstration mission to be launched in late 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[04-01-10] U.K. scientists, funded by Astrium, have developed a 30-kilogram nanosatellite intended to clear more than 5,500 tons of debris in low-Earth orbit, the University of Surrey announced March 31. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The CubeSail nanosatellite, fitted with a solar sail, is designed to attach to other satellites or launch vehicle upper stages and independently deploy itself [&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-87211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87211"}],"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=87211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}