Maria from Mexico, for example, will display messages of peace in her store. Hundreds have done so by making a commitment to offer a gesture of mercy back on Earth. In addition, the name of those who have registered on the official website of Spei Satelles will be placed on an additional chip carried in the satellite. Spei Satelles (Guardian of Hope) lifts off carrying “nanobook” version of Pope Francis’ words Each time it rises, those connected to the 437.5 Mhz frequency can be reached with the Pope's words of comfort and encouragement on the journey of hope. It will then fly over every point on the Earth's surface at the same local solar time. The Pope's word at every sunriseĪfter the launch, the satellite, whose high-tech systems were blessed by Pope Francis last 29 March, reached space via the Falcon 9 carrier rocket from Space X and, thanks to the ION orbital transfer vehicle from Italian company D-ORBIT, will be positioned 525 kilometers above the Earth in synchrony with the sun's rotation. The latter will transmit through two antennas messages of hope Pope Francis has given and which can be picked up by radio enthusiasts around the world. On the outside it is covered with solar panels necessary for generating power, while inside, in addition to the nanobook, there are two on-board computers, a battery, sensors for measurements, small magnets for stabilization and two ultra-high frequency UHF communication systems. It measures 34x10x10 centimeters and weighs nearly three kilograms. Details of the satellite launchĬubesat 3U is the type of satellite designed over five months by the Polytechnic University of Turin on which the nanobook was loaded and launched into space. Each hole engraved at the "1" character - the "0" remains a blank space - is less than a thousandth the thickness of a human hair. Pope Francis' words had to be translated into a series of "0's" and "1's" because it was impossible to adapt traditional printing fonts to such small sizes. Peter's Square during the height of the pandemic, as featured in the book "Why are you afraid, do you still have no faith?" by publisher Libreria Editrice Vaticana. The nanobook made by the CNR's Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnology is a small silicon plate roughly two by two millimeters, that contains a binary code engraving of the Pope's words and photos from the 2020 Statio Orbis in St. The IDCGE of Buenos Aires also participated in the project, while the Digital Apostolate of Turin handled the pastoral and cultural coordination of the mission. The Italian Space Agency has coordinated the project, Italy's National Research Center (CNR) made the nanobook, and the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Turin's Polytechnic University built the satellite, while students at Salesian University Institute of Venice created the logo for the initiative. Spei Satelles, "guardian of hope," is the name of the space mission, promoted by the Vatican's Dicastery for Communication. The Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication teams up with the Italian Space Agency to launch Pope Francis’ message of peace and hope into orbit aboard the Spei Satelles, or ‘Guardian.
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