{"id":68,"date":"2016-09-06T15:57:08","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T15:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/?p=68"},"modified":"2017-03-23T15:42:38","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T15:42:38","slug":"antenna-deployment-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"Antenna Deployment Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The STF-1 team has begun unit testing the ISISpace Antenna System (AntS) in the cleanroom this past week.\u00a0 The AntS is made up of four individual elements that deploy when commanded from the on-board computer.\u00a0 These elements can be in a multitude of configurations, but STF-1 will be utilizing the dual dipole.\u00a0 This means the each antenna is linked with the one directly across from it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-69\" src=\"http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/stf1_ants_01.jpg\" alt=\"stf1_ants_01\" width=\"840\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/stf1_ants_01.jpg 880w, http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/stf1_ants_01-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/stf1_ants_01-768x434.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The picture above shows the antennas are rolled up and ready for deployment.\u00a0 Each antenna has a burn-wire that holds it closed.\u00a0 When activated the resistors underneath this wire will heat up and cause the wire to break and allow the springs to open the door.\u00a0 Each antenna is actually the same material as a tape measure with similar properties.\u00a0 STF-1 will use one dipole (or set of connected antennas) to communicate with the ground station and the other as a Langmuir probe to perform experiments for the Physics department at WVU.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-70\" src=\"http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/stf1_ants_02-1024x579.jpg\" alt=\"stf1_ants_02\" width=\"840\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/stf1_ants_02-1024x579.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/stf1_ants_02-300x170.jpg 300w, http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/stf1_ants_02-768x434.jpg 768w, http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/stf1_ants_02-1200x679.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Each antenna can only be deployed twice, once on the ground and once in space.\u00a0 Because of this, video was taken to document the process.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dMbGAMWpuTs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The STF-1 team has begun unit testing the ISISpace Antenna System (AntS) in the cleanroom this past week.\u00a0 The AntS is made up of four individual elements that deploy when commanded from the on-board computer.\u00a0 These elements can be in a multitude of configurations, but STF-1 will be utilizing the dual dipole.\u00a0 This means the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/?p=68\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Antenna Deployment Test&#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\/68"}],"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=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stf1.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}