Educational and research activities of nanosatellite technologies at the Kyusyu Institute of Technology
Abstract
The Joint Global Multi-Nation Birds Satellite (BIRDS) Program is a series of cross-border interdisciplinary CubeSats constellation projects. The program was started in 2015 by the Kyushu Institute of Technology (Kyutech), Japan, in collaboration with non-space faring countries. During 2-year time frame of each generation, the BIRDS program provides graduate students from non-space faring countries as well as Japanese students hands-on on-the-job training opportunities to design, develop, and operate 1U CubeSats. Each generation of BIRDS project begins every year. Currently, the fourth generation (BIRDS-4) is being developed. Based on the satellite technology developed through the BIRDS program, Kyutech also started the Space Precision Atomic-clock Timing Utility Mission (SPATIUM) to measure the ionospheric total electron contents (TEC). SPATIUM-I was successfully released from the International Space Station on October 6, 2018. Now, the second generation of SPATIUM (SPATIUM-II) is under development. In this presentation, we will give an overview of the BIRDS and SPATIUM projects.
- Publication:
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43rd COSPAR Scientific Assembly. Held 28 January - 4 February
- Pub Date:
- January 2021
- Bibcode:
- 2021cosp...43E2164T