{"id":284,"date":"2006-02-04T08:17:04","date_gmt":"2006-02-04T16:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=284"},"modified":"2006-02-04T08:17:34","modified_gmt":"2006-02-04T16:17:34","slug":"suitsat-batt-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2006\/02\/04\/suitsat-batt-flat\/","title":{"rendered":"SuitSat Batt Flat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I told you this was a <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=271\">Russian brainfart<\/a>. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceweather.com\/\">SpaceWeather.com<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/0602\/suitsat.jpg\" class=\"right\" \/>SUITSAT IS SILENT: Space is cold&#8211;apparently too cold for SuitSat&#8217;s batteries. The Earth-orbiting spacesuit stopped transmitting shortly after it was thrown overboard from the International Space Station on Feb. 3rd. Probable cause: lack of power. <\/p>\n<p><em>Right: SuitSat floats away from the International Space Station on Feb. 3rd.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This doesn&#8217;t mean that SuitSat was a failure. The experimental satellite was &#8220;launched&#8221; to answer questions such as &#8220;Can a spacesuit-satellite function without internal temperature controls?&#8221; The answer, apparently, is no. Next-generation SuitSats will take this into account.<\/p>\n<p>SuitSat will continue to orbit Earth for weeks, spiraling slowly into the atmosphere. Stay tuned for information about seeing SuitSat in the night sky.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I told you this was a Russian brainfart. From SpaceWeather.com SUITSAT IS SILENT: Space is cold&#8211;apparently too cold for SuitSat&#8217;s batteries. The Earth-orbiting spacesuit stopped transmitting&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aerospace","category-rocket-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}