{"id":499,"date":"2015-06-09T16:28:08","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T16:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/?p=499"},"modified":"2015-06-09T16:28:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T16:28:08","slug":"antenna-deployment-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/2015\/06\/09\/antenna-deployment-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Antenna Deployment Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CubeSat project involves many participants. Sometimes, volunteers even ask us to participate outside of their academic or club work, just because they want to be part of UoS3. Huaiyang and one of his friends are such volunteers who dedicated one week of their summer to do test runs on the antenna deployment mechanism.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_500\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/35\/2015\/06\/GOPR0011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-500\" class=\"size-large wp-image-500\" src=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/35\/2015\/06\/GOPR0011-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Young with antenna wiring\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/35\/2015\/06\/GOPR0011-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/35\/2015\/06\/GOPR0011-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/35\/2015\/06\/GOPR0011-900x675.jpg 900w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/35\/2015\/06\/GOPR0011.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-500\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young with antenna wiring<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Thanks to Huaiyang&#8217;s work, we have additional experimental data on how the antenna deployment works best. We tested different mechanism setups, resistors and power levels. This is important because all these parameters influence successful deployment which is not an easy thing to do as this little video shows:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Antenna Deployment Test\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kh6CvFXspfI?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CubeSat project involves many participants. Sometimes, volunteers even ask us to participate outside of their academic or club work, just because they want to be part of UoS3. Huaiyang and one of his friends are such volunteers who dedicated one week of their summer to do test runs on the antenna deployment mechanism. Thanks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":472,"featured_media":500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progress-update"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/35\/2015\/06\/GOPR0011.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","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\/472"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uos3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}