Kagoshima University

Four CubeSats in Japan are planned to launch at May 20, 2010 21:58 UTC together with PLANET-C which belongs to JAXA by H-IIA rocket.

A very small satellite for atmospheric water vapor observations is under construction by the Kagoshima Satellite Development Group. The shape of the satellite is a 10 cm cube with a boom of 60 cm long. A Ku-band compact transmitter is installed in the satellite.

NASA-Catalog: ?

Uplink

2 GHz, 10kbps (S-Band)

Downlink

13.275 GHz, BPSK 10kbps/1Mbps (Ku-Band)

Call

Status

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Homepage und weitere Informationen

http://www.sci.kagoshima-u.ac.jp/~nishio/ download/Ukaren2008Nishio.pdf