{"id":4526,"date":"2020-04-30T16:54:03","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T14:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/?p=4526"},"modified":"2020-04-30T16:54:03","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T14:54:03","slug":"first-guatemalan-satellite-launched-from-the-iss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/first-guatemalan-satellite-launched-from-the-iss\/","title":{"rendered":"First Guatemalan satellite launched from the&nbsp;<span class=\"caps\">ISS<\/span>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guatemala\u2019s first satellite, a&nbsp;small cubesat called <span class=\"caps\">QUETZAL<\/span>\u20111, was launched from the International Space Station (<span class=\"caps\">ISS<\/span>) on Tuesday, April 28, 2020. today. Its primary mission is to test a&nbsp;sensor for remote data acquisition for natural resource management, which could be used to monitor water quality in inland water bodies.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite is part of the Japanese Kibo cubesat program, a&nbsp;product of the cooperation between, among others,&nbsp;the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (<span class=\"caps\">UNOOSA<\/span>), Universidad del Valle de Guatemala (<span class=\"caps\">UVG<\/span>), and more institutions. The operational frequencies were chosen through cooperation from Guatemalan radio amateurs and the International Amateur Radio Union (<span class=\"caps\">IARU<\/span>).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/quetzal-2-300x225.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The Quetzal\u20111 project team director is Guatemalan engineer Jos\u00e9 Bagur, <span class=\"caps\">TG8JAV<\/span>, a&nbsp;graduate from mechatronics engineering at Universidad Del&nbsp;Valle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guatemala\u2019s first satellite, a&nbsp;small cubesat called <span class=\"caps\">QUETZAL<\/span>\u20111, was launched from the International Space Station (<span class=\"caps\">ISS<\/span>) on Tuesday, April 28, 2020. today. Its primary mission is to test a&nbsp;sensor for remote data acquisition for natural resource management, which could be used to monitor water quality in inland water bodies. The satellite is part of the Japanese&nbsp;[\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}