{"id":6108,"date":"2014-01-18T16:20:01","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T16:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6108"},"modified":"2014-01-18T16:20:01","modified_gmt":"2014-01-18T16:20:01","slug":"funcube-an-educational-satellite-for-home-and-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6108","title":{"rendered":"FUNcube &#8211; an educational satellite for home and school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/funcube.org.uk\/\" target=\"_d\">FUNcube<\/a>\u00a0nanosat (now officially designated AO-73)\u00a0reached orbit last November via a Russian Dnepr rocket. The FUNcube project is led by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uk.amsat.org\/\">AMSAT-UK<\/a>\u00a0and is intended as<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0a complete\u00a0educational single CubeSat project with the goal of\u00a0enthusing and educating young people about radio, space, physics and electronics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The project encompasses the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.funcubedongle.com\/\" target=\"_d\">FUNcube Dongle<\/a>, which is a low cost device that plugs into a USB port and turns your computer into<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0the \u201cground segment\u201d, or a radio receiver designed to allow anyone to try their hand at reception of satellites like FUNcube anywhere on Earth as part of a global educational collaboration project collecting information from space.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(The Dongle also needs to connect to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=discone+antenna&amp;oq=discone+antenna&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.3700j0j4&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;espv=210&amp;es_sm=122&amp;ie=UTF-8#q=discone+antenna&amp;tbm=shop\" target=\"_blank\">simple antenna<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/FUNcubeDongle1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6109\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=6109\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/FUNcubeDongle1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"631,357\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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;}\" data-image-title=\"FUNcubeDongle1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/FUNcubeDongle1.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6109\" alt=\"FUNcubeDongle1\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/FUNcubeDongle1.jpg\" width=\"505\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/FUNcubeDongle1.jpg 631w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/FUNcubeDongle1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The satellite has materials on the external surface of the satellite configured with temperature sensors to provide an experiment to study heat radiation and to demonstrate\u00a0telemetry collection and space research methods. There is now a teachers guide available on how to combine this on-board experiment data with the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/funcube.org.uk\/ground-segment\/ground-station\/\" target=\"_blank\">ground station<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/news\/view\/new-guide-promotes-funcube-1-s-educational-value\" target=\"_d\">New Guide Promotes FUNcube-1&#8217;s Educational Value &#8211; ARRL<\/a><\/li>\n<li><em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/files\/file\/ETP\/FUNCube%20Guide.pdf\">Pragmatic Guide for Using the FUNcube (AO-73) Materials Science Experiment in the Classroom (pdf)<\/a><\/em>\u00a0&#8211; by\u00a0Mark Spencer, WA8SME<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As shown in the above diagram, the telemetry data obtain can be shared at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/warehouse.funcube.org.uk\/\" target=\"_d\">FUNcube Real Time Data<\/a>\u00a0on line warehouse.<\/p>\n<p>====<\/p>\n<p>Find more about FUNcube and other space radio projects in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hobbyspace.com\/Radio\/index.html\">HobbySpace Radio section<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0FUNcube\u00a0nanosat (now officially designated AO-73)\u00a0reached orbit last November via a Russian Dnepr rocket. The FUNcube project is led by\u00a0AMSAT-UK\u00a0and is intended as \u00a0a complete\u00a0educational single CubeSat project with the goal of\u00a0enthusing and educating young people about radio, space, physics and electronics. The project encompasses the\u00a0FUNcube Dongle, which is a low cost device that plugs into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6108\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FUNcube &#8211; an educational satellite for home and school<\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,22,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateurstudent-satellite","category-education","category-space-radio"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1Aw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4032,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4032","url_meta":{"origin":6108,"position":0},"title":"The FUNcube Dongle SDR for satellite reception","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 19, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I've posted about the FUNcube Dongle before but it's worth a repeat. 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