{"id":394,"date":"2021-01-28T14:15:01","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T14:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mediaonabicycle.com\/?p=394"},"modified":"2021-01-28T14:16:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T14:16:06","slug":"every-days-a-learning-day-how-do-spacecraft-communicate-with-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mediaonabicycle.com\/?p=394","title":{"rendered":"Every days a learning day &#8211; How do spacecraft communicate with Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After discussions with some pupils this morning I have added a link to a great <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/spaceplace.nasa.gov\/dsn-game\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">NASA<\/a> game focussing on how earth communicates with spacecraft. There is a video at the bottom of the game page with instructions on how to play the game. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How do space agencies communicate with spacecraft? <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceplace.nasa.gov\/dsn-antennas\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/spaceplace.nasa.gov\/dsn-antennas\/en\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spaceplace.nasa.gov\/dsn-game\/en\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/mediaonabicycle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Uplink-1024x760.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-395\" width=\"468\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mediaonabicycle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Uplink-1024x760.png 1024w, https:\/\/mediaonabicycle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Uplink-300x223.png 300w, https:\/\/mediaonabicycle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Uplink-768x570.png 768w, https:\/\/mediaonabicycle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Uplink-404x300.png 404w, https:\/\/mediaonabicycle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Uplink.png 1201w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>https:\/\/spaceplace.nasa.gov\/dsn-game\/en\/<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks again to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NASA.gov<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/mediaonabicycle.com\/?page_id=326\" target=\"_blank\">Cryptography<\/a> &#8211; Learning about Morse code, Caesar Ciphers and the Enigma machine leads nicely into how digital devices communicate, wireless, network cables and binary code. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After discussions with some pupils this morning I have added a link to a great NASA game focussing on how earth communicates with spacecraft. There is a video at the bottom of the game page with instructions on how to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mediaonabicycle.com\/?p=394\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediaonabicycle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediaonabicycle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediaonabicycle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediaonabicycle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediaonabicycle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mediaonabicycle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"https:\/\/mediaonabicycle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediaonabicycle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediaonabicycle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediaonabicycle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}