ISS_KIBO CubeSats

JAXA announced CubeSats of RAIKO, FITSAT-1, WE-WISH to deploy from KIBO in ISS
on 13th Jun 2011. They will be loaded into the J-SSOD deployer on ISS KIBO with
TechEdSat (San Jose State University, USA) and F-1 (FPT University, Vietnam)
by HTV-3 (Kounotori-3) on 21 July 2012.
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/techedf1.htm

These satellites will be deployed from Japanese Experiment Module 'KIBO'
by the robotic arm in September 2012. 
'KIBO' translates to 'Hope', and 'Kounotori' to 'White stork' in english.


RAIKO (Wakayama University, Tohoku University)
100mmx100mmx200mm 2U
http://www.astro.mech.tohoku.ac.jp/RAIKO/

FITSAT-1 (Fukuoka Institute of Technology)
437.250MHz CW, 437.445MHz FM, 5840.00MHz High speed data
http://www.fit.ac.jp/~tanaka/fitsat.shtml
http://turing.cs.fit.ac.jp/~fitsat/

WE WISH (Meisei Electric Co., Ltd.)
437.505MHz SSTV, Telemetry, CW
http://www.meisei.co.jp/news/2011/0617_622.html
https://sites.google.com/site/jq1ziijq1zij/



                                                                            (C)JAXA


Video (C)JAXA


http://aerospacebiz.jaxa.jp/jp/ainori/data/kogata_eisei_hosyutu.wmv


[Supplement]

RAIKO means Drum of the Thunder.
http://www.kenninji.jp/english/




FITSAT-1

NIWAKA of the nickname means that the wordplay of the
satire which is the traditional event in Fukuoka Japan.
http://www.welcome-fukuoka.or.jp/about/90.html




WE WISH



IR pictures of the earth surface with 320x256 pixels
that will be downlinked in approx 110 secs using SSTV.
Proposing a UHF downlink 437.505 MHz and VHF uplink.
Downlink will be SSTV, telemetry or CW beacon.
https://sites.google.com/site/jq1ziijq1zij/


[Reference]

JAXA, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
http://www.jaxa.jp/index_e.html
http://iss.jaxa.jp/en/
http://kibo.jaxa.jp/en/about/kibo/rms/
http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2011/06/20110615_sac_smallsat.pdf

NHK japanese TV, 14 July 2012

(C)NHK
http://www.fit.ac.jp/~tanaka/FITSAT/20120714NHKhoside.WMV

NHK international TV, 24 July 2012

(C)NHK
http://www.fit.ac.jp/~tanaka/FITSAT/20120724NHKinternational.WMV

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