{"id":98315,"date":"2019-10-15T14:50:14","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T12:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/polishscience.pl\/?p=98315"},"modified":"2019-10-15T15:33:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T13:33:51","slug":"researchers-from-the-agh-university-of-science-and-technology-to-study-mars-using-light-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/researchers-from-the-agh-university-of-science-and-technology-to-study-mars-using-light-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers from the AGH University of Science and Technology to study Mars using light satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AGH University of Science and Technology (AGH) together with universities from all over Poland and SatRevolution has created a consortium with the leading space sector company in the world &#8211; Virgin Orbit. The goal of the signed agreement is to develop and send light research satellites into orbit. The start of the first poll is planned for 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The satellite will weigh less than 50 kg and belongs to the category &#8220;cube sat&#8221;. Its task will be to photograph the surface of Mars and its moon &#8211; Phobos, analyze the composition of the Martian atmosphere or even search for water layers beneath the planet&#8217;s surface.<\/p>\n<p>AGH scientists in the project will be responsible for creating a ship orientation system, which will allow to navigate the satellite. They will also construct apparatus that processes images of the planet&#8217;s surface to help select a place for the landing of the American space probe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AGH University of Science and Technology (AGH) together with universities from all over Poland and SatRevolution has created a consortium with the leading space sector company in the world &#8211; Virgin Orbit. The goal of the signed agreement is to develop and send light research satellites into orbit. The start of the first poll is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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\/98315"}],"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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}