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. http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2011/06/20110615_sac_smallsat.pdf RAIKO, Wakayama University, Tohoku University (non-amateur) 2.2GHz/13GHz, 38.4 - 500kbps 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 JAXA HTV3 CubeSats Launch http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/htv3cube.htm FITSAT-1, WE_WISH, F-1, TechEdSat data http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/wishdata.htm How to decode WE_WISH SSTV http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/wishsste.htm How to analyze WE_WISH HK data http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/wishhkdt.htm ISS_KIBO CubeSats Release http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/iss_kib2.htm ISS_KIBO CubeSats Pictures http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/iss_kib3.htm FITSAT-1 Received on 5.84GHz http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/fitsat58.htm FITSAT-1 LED Flashing Experiments Successful http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/fitsatle.htm RAIKO re-entry prediction http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/raikopre.htm