{"id":169056,"date":"2021-02-26T14:35:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T13:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polishscience.pl\/?p=169056"},"modified":"2021-02-26T14:35:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T13:35:58","slug":"end-of-the-satellite-mission-of-students-of-the-warsaw-university-of-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/end-of-the-satellite-mission-of-students-of-the-warsaw-university-of-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"End of the satellite mission of students of the Warsaw University of Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>After 813 days, on February 23, 2021, PW-Sat2 was deorbitated. The satellite completely burned up in the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere. The last signal was received 14 minutes after midnight Polish time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PW-Sat2 is a project of the Students&#8217; Space Association, which operates at the Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering of the Warsaw University of Technology (PW).<\/p>\n<p>The main goal of the students was to construct and test an innovative deorbitation system in the form of a 4 m\u00b2 sail.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite was launched into orbit on December 3, 2018 on board the Falcon 9 rocket. The main phase of the mission lasted until December 28, 2018, when the deorbitation sail was opened. PW-Sat2 has received the signal sent by the ground station with the appropriate command. The sail, previously rolled up in the container, was released and obtained its final shape.<\/p>\n<p>More:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"yYXQY4WdCY\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/pw-sat.pl\/pw-sat2-zdeorbitowal-misja-polskiego-satelity-zakonczona\/\">PW-Sat2 zdeorbitowa\u0142 &#8211; misja polskiego satelity zako\u0144czona<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8222;PW-Sat2 zdeorbitowa\u0142 &#8211; misja polskiego satelity zako\u0144czona&#8221; &#8212; PW-Sat2\" src=\"https:\/\/pw-sat.pl\/pw-sat2-zdeorbitowal-misja-polskiego-satelity-zakonczona\/embed\/#?secret=yYXQY4WdCY\" data-secret=\"yYXQY4WdCY\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 813 days, on February 23, 2021, PW-Sat2 was deorbitated. The satellite completely burned up in the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere. The last signal was received 14 minutes after midnight Polish time. PW-Sat2 is a project of the Students&#8217; Space Association, which operates at the Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering of the Warsaw University of Technology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}