ISS_KIBO CubeSats #1
RAIKO, FITSAT-1, WE WISH
TechEdSat, F-1
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
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