{"id":318,"date":"2015-02-25T20:05:30","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T20:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/?p=318"},"modified":"2015-02-25T20:05:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T20:05:30","slug":"antenna-deployment-mechanism-printed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/2015\/02\/25\/antenna-deployment-mechanism-printed\/","title":{"rendered":"Antenna deployment mechanism printed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_320\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/35\/2015\/02\/IMG20150225152025.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-320\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-320\" src=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/35\/2015\/02\/IMG20150225152025-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Assembled antenna deployment mechanism showing the 3D printed part in white\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/35\/2015\/02\/IMG20150225152025-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/35\/2015\/02\/IMG20150225152025-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/35\/2015\/02\/IMG20150225152025-900x675.jpg 900w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/35\/2015\/02\/IMG20150225152025.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-320\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assembled antenna deployment mechanism showing the 3D printed part in white<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As part of our objective to test fly 3D printed components on the UoS<sup>3<\/sup> CubeSat the mechanism to deploy the antennas from their stored (launch) to operational position has been printed.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than using the common,<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fused_deposition_modeling\"><em> fused deposition modelling<\/em><\/a> technique, the part was printed using the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Selective_laser_sintering\"><em>selective laser sintering<\/em><\/a> method by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3trpd.co.uk\/\">3T RPD<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The part will now undergo integration with the antenna and deployment circuitry to allow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W_51vNwCVdU\">testing<\/a> of the antenna deployment mechanism as a complete unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our objective to test fly 3D printed components on the UoS3 CubeSat the mechanism to deploy the antennas from their stored (launch) to operational position has been printed. Rather than using the common, fused deposition modelling technique, the part was printed using the selective laser sintering method by 3T RPD. The part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":471,"featured_media":180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progress-update","category-project","tag-update"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/35\/2015\/03\/adm-cropped.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/471"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}