Five new Amateur Radio satellites

Mineo Wakita JE9PEL provides details of five new Amateur Radio CubeSats that will be launched later this month.

In a posting on the AMSAT Bulletin Board he writes:

Liftoff: 03:54(UTC) on Jan.21, 2009
Vehicle: H-IIA F15
Launch: Tanegashima Space Center in Japan
Payloads: GOSAT (Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite) IBUKI

Piggyback Payloads:

http://www.jaxa.jp/countdown/f15/overview/sub_payload_e.html
http://www.jaxa.jp/countdown/f15/overview/ibuki_e.html
http://www.jaxa.jp/countdown/f15/overview/h2a_e.html
http://www.jaxa.jp/projects/sat/gosat/index_e.html

JE9PEL, Mineo Wakita

In a following posting Masahiro Arai JN1GKZ provided these additional URL's. For the Japanese language pages try Google Language Translator at http://www.google.co.uk/language_tools?hl=en

Kagayaki 31x31x35cm, 28kg
http://www.sorun.co.jp/kagayaki/top.html (Japanese only)

STARS(Space Tethered Autonomous Robotic Satellite)
KU (Mother Satellite) 16x16x25cm
KAI (Daughter Satellite) 16x16x15cm
http://stars1.eng.kagawa-u.ac.jp/english/index.html

KKS-1(Kouku-Kousen-Satellite-1) 15x15x15cm, 3kg
http://www.kouku-k.ac.jp/~kks-1 (Japanese only)

PRISM(Pico-satellite for Remote-sensing and Innovative Space Missions) 20x20x40cm, 8kg
http://www.space.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/prism/main-e.html

SOHLA-1
http://www.sohla.com/docs/index.php

AMSAT Bulletin Board AMSAT-BB
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/tools/maillist/

IARU Amateur Satellite Frequency Coordination pages
http://www.amsat.org.uk/iaru/finished_detail.asp?serial=115

AMSAT-UK produce a quarterly newsletter OSCAR News full of satellite information. Join online at https://secure.amsat.org.uk/subscription/

AMSAT-UK website
http://www.uk.amsat.org/

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