{"id":9348,"date":"2023-07-05T10:28:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T00:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/07\/05\/quetzal-1-the-guatemalan-cubesat\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:02:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:02:05","slug":"quetzal-1-the-guatemalan-cubesat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/07\/05\/quetzal-1-the-guatemalan-cubesat\/","title":{"rendered":"Quetzal-1 &#8212; The Guatemalan CubeSat"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEg1wLuSNWqzA3f_uxZGbYRxR86LC5VfOxnUUyVLsZiY4szTUTE1j2_fKiZzzIeW6cZfJO-5JpNauC73T9AOnx4Gsfm9Z8R4xGO1AlXlvMpKz8AcIQcyY83R2EbRIdPLViyR3jd2gaHLcmvyo8_H19-pVkzSiaTdB6UbavnFlZqSUYkXX3ZVIC7XlUxWYpk\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-original-height=\"582\" data-original-width=\"1129\" height=\"188\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image_1753114985.png\" width=\"364\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Wow, here&#8217;s another piece of tech news from a place in which I have some experience. Yesterday I posted about the Telekino developed and tested in Bilbao early in the 20th century &#8212; today&#8217;s post is about a much more recent effort in Guatemala: this one to launch a small satellite, a CubeSat. <\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Details here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvg.edu.gt\/cubesat-en\/\"> https:\/\/www.uvg.edu.gt\/cubesat-en\/<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Hack-A-Day reports that the Guatemalan University recently open-sourced all their data on the satellite: <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2023\/07\/04\/quetzal-1-satellite-goes-open-source\/\">https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2023\/07\/04\/quetzal-1-satellite-goes-open-source\/ <\/a> <\/b><b>The Hack-A-Day comments are, as usual, harsh and critical, filled with the assumption that the commenters could have done better. <\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>But hey, three cheers for Quetzal 1 and the Guatemalan satellite builders! <\/b><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, here&#8217;s another piece of tech news from a place in which I have some experience. Yesterday I posted about the Telekino developed and tested in Bilbao early in the 20th century &#8212; today&#8217;s post is about a much more recent effort in Guatemala: this one to launch a small satellite, a CubeSat. Details here: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/07\/05\/quetzal-1-the-guatemalan-cubesat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quetzal-1 &#8212; The Guatemalan CubeSat&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guatemala","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9350,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9348\/revisions\/9350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}