 HITSAT
Amateur CubeSat to launch September 23rd
Mineo Wakita JE9PEL has passed on the information that the launch date
of the HITSAT satellite is currently September 23rd.
HITSAT was developed by the student association 'Hokkaido Space Union'
of the Hokkaido Institute of Technology.
It will be launched from the Uchinoura Space Center on the M-V-7 rocket
as a sub-payload.
The main-payload of the launch is SOLAR-B.
http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/e/enterp/missions/solar-b/index.shtml
It is planned to go into a sun synchronous orbit with an orbital altitude
at perigee of 250km and 600km at apogee with an inclination of 97.79 degrees.
HITSAT is a 12cm cube with a mass of 2.2 kg. It carries a 100 milliwatt
CW beacon on 437.275 MHz and an FM transmitter on 437.425 MHz with a 145.980
MHz uplink.
Related URLs:
HITSAT Project
http://www.hit.ac.jp/~satori/hitsat/index-e.html
M-V-7 Rocket
http://www.jaxa.jp/news_topics/column/no16/p2_e.html
University Space Engineering Consortium – Activity Report 2005
http://www.unisec.jp/member/2005report_e.html
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CubeSat
Hokkaido Institute of Technology
http://www.hit.ac.jp/eng/
JE9PEL
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/
AMSAT-UK produces a newsletter Oscar News packed
full of Amateur Satellite information.
For membership details contact the secretary Jim Heck G3WGM
Tel: +44 (0)1258 453959
Email: g3wgm@amsat.org
Website: http://www.uk.amsat.org/
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