{"id":16115,"date":"2016-12-20T18:34:56","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T17:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16115"},"modified":"2016-12-20T18:34:56","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T17:34:56","slug":"australia-launches-first-iss-payload-and-with-it-a-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16115","title":{"rendered":"Australia launches first ISS payload and with it a Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cuberider.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16116\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cuberider.png?resize=247%2C247&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cuberider.png?w=247&amp;ssl=1 247w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cuberider.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cuberider.png?resize=160%2C160&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just picked up on this in <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceref.com\/international-space-station\/nasa-international-space-station-on-orbit-status-19-december-2016.html\" target=\"_blank\">NASA&#8217;s ISS update report for 19th December.<\/a> Australia has just launched their first payload to the International Space Station. Onboard is a project called CubeRider, which appears to be a Raspberry Pi Model A+ attached to a sensor board with a non-official camera module. I daresay the actual package is more complicated than that (the ISS specifications being very strict, to say the least!) but I can&#8217;t find too much information on it. Here&#8217;s what the NASA report says about CubeRider:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CubeRider is an Australian educational module utilizing a Raspberry Pi, internal camera, sensors that monitors internal environment variables, some radiation, ISS dynamics and movement, and runs computer code written by 9th and 10th graders.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It appears, from <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceref.com\/international-space-station\/nasa-international-space-station-on-orbit-status-19-december-2016.html\" target=\"_blank\">the report<\/a>, that the project isn&#8217;t\u00a0<em>entirely<\/em> working at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/cuberider.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">read more about CubeRider on their website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just picked up on this in NASA&#8217;s ISS update report for 19th December. Australia has just launched their first payload to the International Space Station. Onboard is a project called CubeRider, which appears to be a Raspberry Pi Model A+&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16115\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,68,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera-module","category-science","category-sensors"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Australia launches first ISS payload and with it a Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16115\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Australia launches first ISS payload and with it a Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Just picked up on this in NASA&#8217;s ISS update report for 19th December. 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