{"id":1673,"date":"2013-04-15T06:38:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T06:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1673"},"modified":"2013-04-15T06:38:10","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T06:38:10","slug":"estcube-1-and-sailing-the-solar-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1673","title":{"rendered":"ESTCube-1 and sailing the solar wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Kennedy reports on the first Estonian satellite,the\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.estcube.eu\/en\/home\">ESTCube-1<\/a>, which was <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ESTCube-1\">built by students<\/a> to test\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electric-sailing.fi\/\" target=\"_blank\">electric solar wind sail concept<\/a> (e-Sail) developed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.fmi.fi\/%7Epjanhune\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pekka Janhunen<\/a> of Finland : <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceports.blogspot.com\/2013\/04\/estcube-1-to-test-novel-propulsion.html\" target=\"_blank\">ESTCube-1 to test novel propulsion method &#8211; Spaceports blog<\/a>(See <a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1413\" target=\"_blank\">earlier report here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hsm-V5dccq8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"post-title entry-title\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Kennedy reports on the first Estonian satellite,the\u00a0 ESTCube-1, which was built by students to test\u00a0the electric solar wind sail concept (e-Sail) developed by Pekka Janhunen of Finland : ESTCube-1 to test novel propulsion method &#8211; Spaceports blog(See earlier report here.)<\/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":[4,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateurstudent-satellite","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-qZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2196,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2196","url_meta":{"origin":1673,"position":0},"title":"ESTCube, now in orbit, to test E-Sail propulsion","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 9, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The Estonian student Cubesat project ESTCube successfully reached orbit via a Vega rocket this week: Space country Estonia: satellite ESTCube-1 was launched to orbit and said hello from the space! 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