{"id":431,"date":"2015-05-03T21:13:19","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T21:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/?p=431"},"modified":"2015-05-03T21:13:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T21:13:19","slug":"computers-first-rehearsal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/2015\/05\/03\/computers-first-rehearsal\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer&#8217;s first rehearsal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When many groups of people are making a piece of equipment, like our CubeSat, they have to come up with interfaces that specify how different pieces will fit together. Then you make the pieces according to these interfaces and, if everyone has done everything correctly, the pieces should fit.<\/p>\n<p>When we got our first prototypes of the <a title=\"structure\" href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/cubesat\/structure\/\">structure<\/a>, which will carry the mechanical loads, and the <a title=\"on-board computer\" href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/cubesat\/computer-and-data-handling-unit\/\">on-board computer<\/a>, which also contains most of our <a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/cubesat\/payload\/\" title=\"payload\">payload<\/a>, we decided to see if we&#8217;ve done everything well and our interfaces were maintained. And everything fits beautifully!<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t it nice when a plan comes together?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_429\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/35\/2015\/05\/20150205_141814rotated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-429\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-429\" src=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/35\/2015\/05\/20150205_141814rotated-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"First dress rehearsal of the on-board computer and the load-bearding CubeSat structure.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/35\/2015\/05\/20150205_141814rotated-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/35\/2015\/05\/20150205_141814rotated-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/35\/2015\/05\/20150205_141814rotated.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First dress rehearsal of the on-board computer and the load-bearding CubeSat structure.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When many groups of people are making a piece of equipment, like our CubeSat, they have to come up with interfaces that specify how different pieces will fit together. Then you make the pieces according to these interfaces and, if everyone has done everything correctly, the pieces should fit. When we got our first prototypes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":473,"featured_media":429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-project"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/35\/2015\/05\/20150205_141814rotated.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","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\/473"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}