{"id":2102,"date":"2016-11-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-821\/"},"modified":"2018-05-10T03:34:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T03:34:37","slug":"innovation-anthology-821","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2016\/11\/08\/innovation-anthology-821\/","title":{"rendered":"#821: AlbertaSAT Wins Special ASTech Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 821.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Alberta science and technology community<br \/>recently celebrated its finest at the 2016 ASTech Awards.<\/p>\n<p>A special award was given to AlbertaSAT.&nbsp; This is a group of students at the University of Alberta.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re building a micro satellite.&nbsp; And as Colin Cupido explains, it&#8217;s about the size of a loaf of bread. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">COLIN  CUPIDO: <\/span>&nbsp;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">We&#8217;re part of an international mission and this is called the  Cube50 mission, And the idea is that there are 50 satelites built around  the world by various universities. &nbsp;And each university contributes in  their own way their own special satellite towards this mission to study  the lower thermosphere. an area of the atmosphere that really at this  point is not as well known as other parts. <br \/>Either you&#8217;re either too  low in the atmosphere, like in an airplane or a balloon, or you&#8217;re too  high like the big expensive satelites. &nbsp;And so the goal of the mission  is to get all of these institutions to build their own satelitte, to  develop their nano satilite capabilities, and participate in this  mission to make this truly innovative constellation of measurements to  really &nbsp;enhance a difficult to study area of the atmosphere. <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to Colin Cupido, AlbertaSAT goes to the International Space Station in mid-February and will be deployed from there to the upper atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">FOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY<br \/>I&#8217;M CHERYL CROUCHER<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3> , <\/h3>\n<h4>, , , , <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"\"><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02016-11-08<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UAlberta students win special award as ASTech Gala for their work to launch a micro satellite as part of an international space mission to study the thermosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,37,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atmospheric-sciences","category-awards-and-competitions","category-space","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/16colin_cupido.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2102"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5415,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions\/5415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}