{"id":9682,"date":"2014-05-24T12:40:16","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T19:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=9682"},"modified":"2021-01-18T01:34:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T09:34:56","slug":"elfin-satellite-selected-for-nasa-program-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=9682","title":{"rendered":"ELFIN satellite selected for NASA program funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ELFIN1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9683 alignleft\" alt=\"ELFIN1\" src=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ELFIN1-300x168.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ELFIN1-300x168.png 300w, http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ELFIN1-1024x576.png 1024w, http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ELFIN1-600x337.png 600w, http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ELFIN1.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The ELFIN satellite currently under construction at UCLA has been selected to receive funding by the NASA Low Cost Access to Space (LCAS) program.\u00a0 The LCAS website describes their mission as supporting &#8220;science investigations that may be completed through suborbital flight, as well as proof-testing new technologies that may ultimately find application in free-flying Heliophysics space missions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ELFIN is primarily being designed and built by a group of undergraduate students supervised by Prof. Vassilis Angelopoulos.\u00a0 The satellite is about the size of a loaf of bread, weighs 8 pounds, and will house a magnetometer and particle detector to take space weather measurements around Earth&#8217;s poles.\u00a0 Learn more about the mission from the <a href=\"http:\/\/elfin.igpp.ucla.edu\/\">ELFIN website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ELFIN satellite currently under construction at UCLA has been selected to receive funding by the NASA Low Cost Access to Space (LCAS) program.\u00a0 The LCAS website describes their mission as supporting &#8220;science investigations that may be completed through suborbital flight, as well as proof-testing new technologies that may ultimately find application in free-flying Heliophysics &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=9682\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ELFIN satellite selected for NASA program funding&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":9683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9682"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9685,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9682\/revisions\/9685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}