{"id":194269,"date":"2021-09-13T16:58:10","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T14:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polishscience.pl\/?p=194269"},"modified":"2021-09-13T16:58:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T14:58:10","slug":"atmospheric-probe-of-students-of-wroclaw-university-of-science-and-technology-to-circle-the-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/atmospheric-probe-of-students-of-wroclaw-university-of-science-and-technology-to-circle-the-globe\/","title":{"rendered":"Atmospheric probe of students of Wroc\u0142aw University of Science and Technology to circle the globe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Members of the Wroc\u0142aw University of Science and Technology research club PWr in Space launched PoliFloater, an atmospheric probe from the B\u0142\u0119dowska Desert that will circle the globe in three weeks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; We developed the PoliFloater to gain new skills and learn from the data sent by the probe to create next devices even better.\u00a0For now, our probe was made of ready-made elements that we bought and combined, but ultimately, we want to create such devices from scratch ourselves and test our own various technologies &#8211; says Konrad Zaprucki from the PWr in Space club.<\/p>\n<p>PoliFloater weighs less than 20 grams.\u00a0It consists of an on-board computer, a radio module, a voltage meter and a pressure sensor, as well as photovoltaic cells and gas-filled foil balloons allowing it to float in the air.\u00a0To reduce its weight, the probe has no batteries \u2013 its devices are active during the day, and when it gets dark, the PoliFloater &#8220;falls asleep&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>More:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?hl=ru&amp;prev=_t&amp;sl=pl&amp;tl=en&amp;u=https:\/\/pwr.edu.pl\/uczelnia\/aktualnosci\/sonda-studentow-pwr-wystartowala-w-lot-dookola-swiata-12137.html\">https:\/\/pwr.edu.pl\/uczelnia\/aktualnosci\/sonda-studentow-pwr-wystartowala-w-lot-dookola-swiata-12137.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Wroc\u0142aw University of Science and Technology research club PWr in Space launched PoliFloater, an atmospheric probe from the B\u0142\u0119dowska Desert that will circle the globe in three weeks. &#8211; We developed the PoliFloater to gain new skills and learn from the data sent by the probe to create next devices even better.\u00a0For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194269"}],"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=194269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}