UNITEC-1, Negai*", Waseda-SAT2, KSAT information
Four CubeSats in Japan are planning to launch on 17 May 2010
together with PLANET-C which belongs to JAXA by H-IIA rocket. (postponed)
Launch date, 20 May 2010
Launch time, 21:58:22UTC
Launch site, Tanegashima Space Center in Japan
http://www.jaxa.jp/index_e.html
http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2010/03/20100303_h2af17_e.html
http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2008/07/20080709_sac_sat.pdf
Three of the CubeSats, Negai*", Waseda-SAT2, KSAT, being launched by
the H-IIA rocket on May 17 will be dropped off into a low earth orbit
but UNITEC-1 will continue following the JAXA's Venus Climate Orbiter
PLANET-C / AKATSUKI on its journey to Venus.
UNITEC-1, NPO UNISEC (University Space Engineering Consortium)
5.840GHz, travel into deep space towards Venus
http://www.unisec.jp/unitec-1/en/top.html
http://sites.google.com/site/unitec1ops/
Negai*", Soka University
437.305MHz CW, Packet 1200bps FSK AX.25
http://kuro.t.soka.ac.jp/main.html
http://kuro.t.soka.ac.jp/negai/sokags/index.html
Waseda-SAT2, Waseda University
437.485MHz CW(FM), PCM-FSK(FM) 9600bps
http://www.miyashita.mmech.waseda.ac.jp/Waseda-Sat2/index.htm
KSAT, Kagoshima University
Uplink: S-band(2GHz, 10kbps), Downlink: Ku-band(13.275GHz, 10kbps/1Mbps)
http://www.kasat.jp/
http://www.sci.kagoshima-u.ac.jp/~nishio/download/Ukaren2008Nishio.pdf
Waseda-SAT2 KSAT
PLANET-C, UNITEC-1 video and overview
PLANET-C video (C)JAXA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5rzIsDNrL4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Q3m45h-Gs
PLANET-C overview (C)JAXA
http://www.jaxa.jp/projects/sat/planet_c/index_e.html
UNITEC-1 video (C)Aichi University of Technology, Kawaju Gifu Engineering Co.,Ltd.
http://www.unisec.jp/unitec-1/files/movie/UNITEC-1_20090817.wmv
UNITEC-1 overview (C)UNISEC
http://www.unisec.jp/unitec-1/en/top.html
Negai*" sound sample
http://ja0caw-je0mzi.mo-blog.jp/syumi/files/Negai-0317-2.wav
http://ja0caw-je0mzi.mo-blog.jp/syumi/files/nehgai-cw.mp3
437.305 MHz FM, 1k2 AFSK AX.25, 0.8W
AFSK sound sample are decoded as follows.
22 Mar 2010
(1) Start - Settings - Control Panel - Sound and Audio Devices
(2) Voice - Recording sound - Volume - Check Wave or Monaural Mixer
(3) Run MixW
(4) Run a recorded WAV file with the sound recoder 'sndrec32.exe'
(5) Then it's decoded automatically as above.
(C) asahi.com
H-IIA F17 Launch information
Launch date, 20 May 2010
Launch time, 21:58:22UTC
Launch site, Tanegashima Space Center in Japan
http://www.jaxa.jp/index_e.html
Satellite Downlink Beacon Mode Callsign
----------- -------- -------- ----------------- --------
UNITEC-1 5840.000 5840.000 1200bps AFSK,CW JQ1ZUN
Negai*" 437.305 437.305 1200bps AFSK,CW JQ1ZEX
Waseda-SAT2 437.485 437.485 1200bps PCMFSK,CW WASEDA
Negai
1 00000U 00000H 10140.92363856 .00000730 00000-0 00000-0 0 00
2 000000 29.9659 238.9027 0000000 120.7250 357.125 15.908223575 00
Unitec1OrbitEstimation.exe
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/00520uni.jpg
http://sites.google.com/site/unitec1ops/swdownload
http://ssdl-www.aero.kyushu-u.ac.jp/unitec1/archives/data/Software/UNITEC-1_OrbitEstimationGUI.zip
Tanegashima Web Camera
http://space.jaxa.jp/tnsc/webcam/index_e.shtml
Live Broadcast
http://www.jaxa.jp/countdown/f17/live/index_e.html
AKATSUKI Special Site
http://www.jaxa.jp/countdown/f17/index_e.html
MITSUBISHI Heavy Industries,LTD. Countdown Report
http://h2a.mhi.co.jp/mission/results/f17countdown_en.html
Reference
UNITEC-1 telemetry analysis
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/unitec-2.htm
H-IIA F17 successfully launched
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/hiirockt.htm
Negai*", Waseda-SAT2, UNITEC-1 reception reports
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/negaiwas.htm
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