{"id":3928303,"date":"2026-10-06T20:02:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T01:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/computer-scientist-tracks-satellites-with-automated-observatory-built-from-off-the-shelf-technology\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T20:02:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T01:02:50","slug":"computer-scientist-tracks-satellites-with-automated-observatory-built-from-off-the-shelf-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/computer-scientist-tracks-satellites-with-automated-observatory-built-from-off-the-shelf-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer scientist tracks satellites with automated observatory built from off-the-shelf technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Allen Schnibben&#8217;s interest in space started when he was a child. &#8220;I picked up some books about the solar system when I was in elementary school. In middle school, I got a telescope and I started observing the night sky as a hobby,&#8221; said Schnibben, a computer scientist at Sandia National Laboratories. &#8220;My entire life, I&#8217;ve had an interest in space.&#8221; Now, Schnibben collects data on satellites at Sandia&#8217;s SOHBRIT facility, a 12-foot-wide (3.7-meter-wide) observatory.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-10-scientist-tracks-satellites-automated-observatory.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allen Schnibben&#8217;s interest in space started when he was a child. &#8220;I picked up some books about the solar system when I was in elementary school. In middle school, I got a telescope and I started observing the night sky as a hobby,&#8221; said Schnibben, a computer scientist at Sandia National Laboratories. &#8220;My entire life, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3928303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3928303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}