{"id":33,"date":"2016-04-25T13:03:42","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T13:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stf1.com\/stf-1\/news\/?p=33"},"modified":"2016-07-26T13:05:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T13:05:38","slug":"manifested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"Manifested!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STF-1 is scheduled to launch on ELaNA XIX via a brand new rocket called the Electron.\u00a0 This rocket is currently being built and tested by Rocket Labs USA.\u00a0 This launch is planned to have an inclination of 85\u00b0 and an altitude of 500km.\u00a0 This means that STF-1 will travel around the earth from approximately pole to pole every orbit, will travel around the earth about once every hour and a half, and will be about 100km higher than the International Space Station (ISS) but about 35,000km lower than DirectTV and Dish Network TV satellites!<\/p>\n<p>This announcement brings with it some schedule updates:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mission Readiness Review:<\/strong> March 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>Delivery:<\/strong> April 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>Launch:<\/strong> June 2017<\/p>\n<p>This means that the STF-1 team has under a year to get everything done before delivery!\u00a0 Even better news is that we have already received our first instrument delivery form the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department at West Virginia University.\u00a0 The Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) was developed at WVU with the help of the University of South Florida under the Small Satellite Technology Partnership.\u00a0 The IMU design was miniaturized to overcome the size, weight, and power constraints placed on our spacecraft.\u00a0 The third generation of the board that has been made custom for STF-1 has 32 sensors on it that will be individually calibrated by student designed rate tables and temperature chambers to give us the best possible data.<\/p>\n<p>Updated information has also been provided by all science payloads allowing us to further update the location of all the components.\u00a0 The recent model with expanded information is shown below.\u00a0 This slide was presented at the 13<sup>th<\/sup> annual CubeSat Developers Workshop along with a full mission overview.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbattin.com\/stf-1\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/6.png\" alt=\"6\" width=\"486\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/6.png 486w, http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/6-300x234.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 486px) 85vw, 486px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STF-1 is scheduled to launch on ELaNA XIX via a brand new rocket called the Electron.\u00a0 This rocket is currently being built and tested by Rocket Labs USA.\u00a0 This launch is planned to have an inclination of 85\u00b0 and an altitude of 500km.\u00a0 This means that STF-1 will travel around the earth from approximately pole &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/?p=33\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Manifested!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}