{"id":16610,"date":"2018-08-23T10:16:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T14:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16610"},"modified":"2018-08-23T10:16:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T14:16:00","slug":"build-a-lego-version-of-the-planet-labs-dove-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16610","title":{"rendered":"Build a LEGO version of the Planet Labs Dove satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These days even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/first-cubesat-built-by-an-elementary-school-deployed-into-space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">elementary student groups<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amsat.org\/meet-the-fox-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">small organizations<\/a> are building <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cubesat.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CubeSats<\/a> and seeing them go into orbit. If you are not up to building and launching a working spacecraft yourself, here are the directions for assembling a LEGO model of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planet.com\/company\/approach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dove<\/a> earth imaging CubeSat developed by the company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Planet<\/a> of Silicon Valley:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/moorelegodesigns.blogspot.com\/2018\/08\/planet-labs-dove-instructions-parts.html?spref=tw\" target=\"_d\">Planet Labs Dove &#8211; Instructions, Parts List, Options<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16611\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16611\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moorelegodesigns.blogspot.com\/2018\/08\/planet-labs-dove-instructions-parts.html?spref=tw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16611\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=16611\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PlanetLabsDove1.png\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Planet Labs Dove LEGO\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PlanetLabsDove1.png\" class=\"wp-image-16611\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PlanetLabsDove1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PlanetLabsDove1.png 640w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PlanetLabsDove1-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16611\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Custom built LEGO model of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planet.com\/company\/approach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Planet Dove<\/a> 3U CubeSat<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The history of the project can be found in the blog posts by\u00a0Scott Moore, Jr. at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/moorelegodesigns.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_d\">LEGO Designs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">====<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=hobbyspace&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B07FYWM41W&amp;asins=B07FYWM41W&amp;linkId=96d3a62c5871c0c6409f7a8b294e2191&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true&amp;price_color=333333&amp;title_color=0066c0&amp;bg_color=ffffff\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These days even elementary student groups and small organizations are building CubeSats and seeing them go into orbit. If you are not up to building and launching a working spacecraft yourself, here are the directions for assembling a LEGO model of the Dove earth imaging CubeSat developed by the company Planet of Silicon Valley:\u00a0\u00a0Planet Labs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16610\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Build a LEGO version of the Planet Labs Dove satellite<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[4,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateurstudent-satellite","category-space-models"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-4jU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14665,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14665","url_meta":{"origin":16610,"position":0},"title":"Videos: Planet satellite captures launch of more Planet satellites","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 23, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"On July 14th, a Russian Soyuz rocket launched a large government earth observation satellite as its primary payload and 72 small satellites, including 48 for the earth observation company\u00a0Planet (formerly Planet Labs). 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