{"id":85133,"date":"2022-05-25T19:01:07","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T23:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=85133"},"modified":"2022-05-30T08:53:55","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T12:53:55","slug":"wednesday-night-in-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2022\/05\/25\/wednesday-night-in-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday night  &#8211; in orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was heading back from the dentist\u00a0 morning when I got a text message from my good friend Naeem.\u00a0 \u00a0He let me know that today was a big day for us.<\/p>\n<p>Naeem is my favorite space freak\u2026 He&#8217;s been working very hard with a group from Bulgaria to build a small &#8220;cube sat&#8221; satellite which will be an orbit for the next three or so years. He&#8217;s going to be using it for cloud computing from space experiments. So cool<\/p>\n<p>And when Naeem told me about the project I mentioned how much I would love to get a samstone in orbit. (There was already one in space.. but not in orbit\u00a0 see http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/?p=1827)<br \/>\nWe explored different options but it turns out that the satellites are very space and weight constraint so instead of putting a real Sam stone on it I created an image from a 3-D scan of a real stone and gave it to the manufactures. They etched into the side of one of the struts inside the small satellite.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway.. Naeem was told that the space launch was today. 2 PM specifically\u2026 And then the satellite itself would be deployed around 2:30. Here&#8217;s a picture of it\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_7124.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-85131\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_7124-300x258.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_7124.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_7124.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_7124.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_7124.jpeg 794w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/samstoneinspace.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-85134\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/samstoneinspace-290x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/samstoneinspace.jpg 290w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/samstoneinspace.jpg 145w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/samstoneinspace.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Heres a video Naeem sent me of the actual deployment into orbit<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"samstoneinorbit\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n97sEDg52Do?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sam is now in orbit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was heading back from the dentist\u00a0 morning when I got a text message from my good friend Naeem.\u00a0 \u00a0He let me know that today was a big day for us. Naeem is my favorite space freak\u2026 He&#8217;s been working very hard with a group from Bulgaria to build a small &#8220;cube sat&#8221; satellite which &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2022\/05\/25\/wednesday-night-in-orbit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday night  &#8211; in orbit<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85133"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85178,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85133\/revisions\/85178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}