Overview of Public Offering for
Small Secondary Satellite Launch Opportunity
Purpose:

JAXA intends to expand space development and utilization fields in Japan by establishing a system toprovide an opportunity for easy and timely launches and operation of a small satellite made by
private companies and universities.
Using a small satellite, JAXA would like to gain experiences and learn technologies through on-orbit
verification accumulated by private companies and universities to contribute to expanding spacedevelopment and utilization, promoting education and fostering human resources.
In the future, we expect to further contribute to expanding satellite use in the private sector andincreasing launch opportunities.

Applicable small satellite:••Either 1- to 10-kg class or 50-kg class small satellite that satisfies the following main objectives:to contribute to the expansion of space development use in Japan
to contribute to fostering humans resource development in the space field such as promoting
university education

Qualification for application
 Applicants must satisfy the following conditions:
1. Shall belong to a Japanese agency, organization or group.
2. Has the ability to carry out the design, manufacture, test, and operation, to take appropriate measures
to non-compliant problems, and to implement the mission.
3. Can coordinate technical issues with JAXA.
4. Can take the financial burden of its own operations that are listed in the separate detailed
requirements including manufacturing costs and costs of some tests required by JAXA.
5. Satellites whose main purpose is advertising an applicant and/or business activities of an applicant, or
whose main purpose is directly linked to sales activities are not qualified.

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SatelliteDeveloper:Soka University

Purpose:

1. It is said that if you wish upon a shooting
star, your dream will come true. As thesatellite’s name shows, Negai (meaning“wish”), which is packed with children’s
dreams, will become a shooting star in
the night sky in three weeks after its
launch to deliver their dreams.
2. It will also verify the highly reliable
information processing system using
FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array)in spaceSize:

about 10 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm

Mass:about 1.0 kg

Orbit:

Parking orbit (Earth orbit)

Negai☆” contact information:
Professor Seiji Kuroki, Faculty ofEngineering, Soka University
042‐691‐9400
kuroki@soka.ac.jp
Negai☆” Home Page:
http://kuro.t.soka.ac.jp/cube/w
hat/index.html

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Satellite
Developer:

Waseda University

Purpose:

1. Verification of attitude control by paddle
deployment
2. QR code image shooting experiment

Size:

about 10 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm

Mass:about 1.2 kg

Orbit:

Parking orbit (Earth orbit)

WASEDA‐SAT2 contact
information:
Professor Hiroshi Yamakawa,
School of Creative Science andEngineering, Waseda University.
03‐5286‐3262
yhiroshi@waseda.jp
Associate Professor Tomoyuki
Miyashita
03‐5286‐3249
tomo.miyashita@waseda.jp
WASEDA‐SAT2 Home Page:
http://www.miyashita.mmech.
waseda.ac.jp/Waseda‐
Sat2/index.htm

KSAT
Satellite
Developer:

Kagoshima University

Purpose:

1. Observation experiments of atmosphericvapor distribution for predicting localized
heavy rain
2. Shooting moving images of the Earththrough microwave high-speed
communications

Size:

about 10 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm

Mass:about 1.5 kg

Orbit:

Parking orbit (Earth orbit)

KSAT contact information:
Professor Masanori Nisio,
Faculty of Science, Kagoshima
University099‐285‐6047
mxnishio@sci.kagoshima‐u.ac.jp
KSAT Home Page：
http://kasat.jp/

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SatelliteDeveloper:

University Space Engineering Consortium

Purpose:

1. Verification of endurance andperformance of computers for space use
developed by universities in the spaceenvironment
2. Technological experiments for receiving
and decoding faint radio waves fromdeep space

Size:

about 40 cm x 40 cm x 40 cm

Mass:about 21 kg

Orbit:

Venus transfer orbit

UNITEC‐1 contact information:
Administrator Shinichi Nakasuka,
University Space Engineering
Consortium
nakasuka@space.t.u‐tokyo.ac.jp
UNITEC‐1 Home Page：
http://www.unisec.jp/unitec‐
1/ja/top.html