{"id":10409,"date":"2015-04-18T14:54:16","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T18:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10409"},"modified":"2015-04-18T14:54:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T18:54:20","slug":"students-plan-to-put-billboards-on-sides-of-cubesats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10409","title":{"rendered":"Students plan to put billboards on sides of Cubesats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"accent\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spacebillboard.com\/the-team\" target=\"_blank\">Three PhD student researchers<\/a> in engineering at\u00a0<\/span>the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuleuven.be\/english\" target=\"_new\">University of Leuven (Belgium)<\/a>\u00a0founded\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/spacebillboard.com\/\" target=\"_d\">SpaceBillboard.com<\/a>. Their plan is to sell squares on\u00a0a grid on the side on the side of a small CubeSat spacecraft where companies can <a href=\"http:\/\/spacebillboard.com\/for-advertisers\" target=\"_blank\">place ads or logos<\/a> and individuals can put\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/spacebillboard.com\/personal-messages\" target=\"_d\">personal messages<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>SpaceBillboard sells advertisement space on a billboard that will be launched into space on board of a satellite. This will be the <span class=\"accent\">first advertisement platform ever to pass the boundary of space<\/span>. The revenues of this project will be used to <span class=\"accent\">sponsor space research<\/span> at the University of Leuven. But this is <span class=\"accent\">not just charity<\/span>. This unique story will go around the world as well.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SpaceBillboard.com - The first billboard in space\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/80134768?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The money raised from the billboards will go for space research:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>SpaceBillboard supports innovative space research. More precisely, we want to support research on CubeSats. The first CubeSats were developed as student projects in universities, but by now, space agencies such as NASA and ESA have recognized their potential. <a href=\"http:\/\/spacebillboard.com\/the-team\" target=\"_blank\">But what makes them so special?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three PhD student researchers in engineering at\u00a0the University of Leuven (Belgium)\u00a0founded\u00a0SpaceBillboard.com. Their plan is to sell squares on\u00a0a grid on the side on the side of a small CubeSat spacecraft where companies can place ads or logos and individuals can put\u00a0personal messages. SpaceBillboard sells advertisement space on a billboard that will be launched into space &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10409\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Students plan to put billboards on sides of Cubesats<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,74,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateurstudent-satellite","category-space-business","category-space-participation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2HT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17795,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=17795","url_meta":{"origin":10409,"position":0},"title":"Student and amateur CubeSat news roundup &#8211; Feb.10.2019","author":"TopSpacer","date":"February 10, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"A sampling of recent articles, press releases, etc. about student and amateur CubeSat \/ SmallSat projects and programs: ** Images of earth from lunar orbit are being captured via amateur radio transmissions from a transceiver placed on a Chinese satellite by a group at the Harbin Institute of Technology: Far\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Amateur\/Student Satellite&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Amateur\/Student Satellite","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=4"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/20181010-Our-precious-Earth-and-the-lunar-farside1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":20539,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=20539","url_meta":{"origin":10409,"position":1},"title":"Student and amateur CubeSat news roundup &#8211; Dec.17.2019","author":"TopSpacer","date":"December 17, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"A sampling of recent articles, press releases, etc. related to student and amateur CubeSat \/ SmallSat projects and programs (find previous smallsat roundups here): ** Indian rocket orbits Duchifat-3 CubeSat built by Israeli high school students: Satellite built by Israeli students successfully put into orbit by ISRO - The Hindu\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Amateur\/Student Satellite&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Amateur\/Student Satellite","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=4"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Duchifat-3.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":15491,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15491","url_meta":{"origin":10409,"position":2},"title":"Student satellite projects","author":"TopSpacer","date":"January 18, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"It's becoming increasingly common for students in colleges as well as in grade schools and high schools to built small satellites and see them go into space before they graduate. 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