宇宙システムと途上国支援
Satellite Systems andSupporting Developing Nations
Toshihiro Obata,
The University of Tokyo(obata@space.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp)

Introduction
 Toshihiro Obata 1997: Start Working at Mitsubishi Electric Corp.
 2004: 1 year at Astrium Germany (now Airbus DS)
 Worked for around 12 kinds, 15 satellite,ex) ALOS-2, GOSAT, HTV and etc.
Strategy for Technology Development,
Proposal for new satellite projects
 2016: Retired after 19 years in Mitsubishi Electric Corp.

 Now Working for Nakasuka-Funase Lab, Univ. of Tokyo.
 Small SAR satellite project Autonomy, satellite on-board Systems engineering
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Supporting Developing Nations
 Affordability of Nano Satellites encourage
Developing Nations having their own one andsolving national and international issues by themselves
 having their own satellite contributes to educationof science and enlightens their people

VNREDSat-1 contributing International
Disaster Monitoring ©VNSC

 We are supporting the following areas:1.

Remote Sensing
 Disaster monitoring, crop field management,

Fishing Area at Indonesia ©Lapan

monitoring illegal deforestation, forest fire and etc.

2.

Store & Forward (Low speed machine to machine communication)

DroughtEstimation
at Philippines Good enough mission for cubesats and suitable for capability building Constellation proposed for water quality and water level management

3.

Support for education of space systems and space applications© Secretary Departmentof Science and Page 3
Technology Philippines

Example of Collaborations and Capability Building Many Countries collaborate with Japanese government, agencies,
universities and industries and building capabilities
Country

PicoDragon Vietnam(Vietnam National Satellite Center)

Japanese Partner

LaunchJAXA,IHI,
Univ. of Tokyo

2013
2014,15©VNSC

Turksat-4

Turkey (Turksat)

JAXA, MELCO

Diwata-1

Philippines2016
Tohoku Univ.
Hokkaido Univ.

(Department of Science and Tech.,Philippine Univ)UBAKUSATTurkey(Istanbul Technical University)

JSF, Kyushu
Institute ofTechnology

2017Univ. of Tokyo
Keio Univ. etc.

2018

MicroDragon

Vietnam

UNISECGlobal

Many (14 authorized,34 prepared)

UNISEC

Under
discussion

Lotus-1/2

Vietnam

METI

Planned(Vietnam National Satellite Center)(Vietnam National Satellite Center)

Capability
Building Included©MELCO©JAXA©DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF
AERONAUTICS AND SPACETECHNOLOGIES, Turkey©VNSC

Store & Forward orother collaborativemissions©VNSC

Page 4Univ. of Tokyo Small Sats (9 Developed, 8 Launched）

World 1st 1kg Sat
XI-IV(2003）

Tech DemoXI-V(2005）

8kg for 30m GSD
PRISM(2009）
Wide（Sri Lanka）

State of the Art
World 1st DeepSpace Science
Space Small Sat
Nano-JASMINEPROCYON(2014)(Waiting for launch）

60kg class 6mGSD (2years for development）
Hodoyoshi-1
Hodoyoshi 3/4（launched in 2014）

S&F satellite TRICOM-1 (Jan 2017)

6mGSD（Chiba JPN）

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Sri Lanka(LCAM 240m GSD)

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Greek (false color)(MCAM 40m GSD)

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Chiba（６ｍ GSD)
Page 8Dubai(6.7mGSD)
Resultof Hodoyoshi-1/3/4

Page 9AXELSPACE提供

アカロア（ニュージーランド）

Page 10AXELSPACE提供

AxelGlobe by Axelspace
 50 small satellite constellation for earth observation
 3 satellite will be launched in 2017
 Inviting partners
all over the world
who build satellites
within AxelGlobe
scheme Building 1 satellite
allow them toaccess capability of
50 satellites©Axelspace

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SAR development for Small Satellite
 Synthetic Aperture Radar, 1m class Resolution, on the 100kg class satellite On-demand mission: The data is provided to users < half a day, under all weather, even nighttime.
 The satellite is launched after a request within a few hours to an adequate orbitthat enables on-demand observation.

 Funded by Japanese government within ImPACT program.
SAR Antenna©JSTPage 12

Stored & Forward
Send data from Satellite to GroundAntenna

Gather data from Ground Sensors

 Ground or buy sensors to measure, satellites to collect data that
downlinked to ground stations at low bit rate

 UNISEC-Global is now proposing to build a constellation of cubesats forthe mission. Each country/university can contribute with their own
satellite and get frequent access of sensor data through the constellation
 Key is ‘what to measure’ Water quality, water level, soil, environment(CO2, gas), car velocity(trafficjam), ship route(oceanic current), ground movement(earthquake) Competitive where no mobile infrastructure, dangerous areas, etc.

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3U CubeSat “TriCom-1”
 Store & Forward Test Satellite of
University of Tokyo,(Launch in Jan 2017)
 Affordable : Cubesat

 No RF license is needed, globally Simple protocol

 Less power, good enoughdata rate (100bps) Suitable mission forcapability building
Receiver Module

Transmitteron the GroundPage 14

UNISEC-Global (University Consortium)
34 regions/countries are interested to start UNISEC (UNIversity
Space Engineering Consortium) in their countries: South Africa,Angola, Namibia, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Tunisia,
Bangladesh, Korea, Mongolia, Nepal, the Philippines, Singapore,Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Australia, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Canada,USA, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Brazil, Bulgaria, Italy, Samara(Russia), Switzerland, Germany, Slovenia, Lithuania and Japan.

13 Local Chapters and1 Association of Local
Chapters have been
acknowledged. (red part)

Page 15CanSat Leadership Training Program

Lectures on Space Engineering by CanSat organized by UNISEC
CLTP1 (Wakayama Univ. in Feb-March, 2011)

12 from 10 countries, namely Algeria, Australia, Egypt,
Guatemala, Mexico, Nigeria, Peru, Sri Lanka, Turkey (3), Vietnam.

64 participantsfrom 32 countries

CLTP2 (Nihon Univ. in Nov-Dec, 2011)

10 from 10 countries, namely Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria, Vietnam,Ghana, Peru, Singapore, Mongolia, Thailand, Turkey.

CLTP3 (Tokyo Metropolitan Univ. in July-August, 2012)
10 from 9 countries, namely Egypt (2), Nigeria, Namibia, Turkey,Lithuania, Mongolia, Israel, Philippines, Brazil.

CLTP4 (Keio Univ. in July-August, 2013)

9 from 6 countries, namely Mexico(4), Angola, Mongolia, Philippines,Bangladesh, Japan.

CLTP5 (Hokkaido Univ. in Sept 8-19, 2014)

7 from 5 countries, namely Korea (2), Peru, Mongolia, Mexico (2), Egypt.

CLTP6 (Hokkaido Univ. in August 24-Sept 3, 2015)

8 from 8 countries, namely Bangladesh, Egypt, Mexico, New Zealand,Angola, Turkey, Tunisia, Austria

CLTP7 (Hokkaido Univ. in Sept 21-Oct 1, 2016)

8 from 7 countries, namely Egypt, Peru, Mongolia, Nepal, Myanmar,Serbia, Dominica RepublicPage 16

Mission Idea Contest (MIC) for
Micro/nano satellite utilization
 Mission and satellite design idea for less than
50kg micro/nano/pico-satellites
 Regional coordinators: 33
 History
 MIC1 in Tokyo, March 14, 2011
 MIC2 in Nagoya, Oct. 10, 2012 PreMIC3 in Tokyo, Nov. 23, 2013

 MIC3 in Kitakyushu, Nov 19, 2014
 PreMIC4 in Tokyo, July 3, 2015
 MIC4 in Varna, Oct, 2016
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Global network through MIC and CLTP
(MIC:33, CLTP: 21 nations) 38 countries in total
260 attendants from 47 nations in 5th Nano-sat Sympo 2013

: CLTP participant: MIC coordinator- MicroDragon is developed with 36 Vietnam young engineers in four years- Collaboration with Kazakfstan, Brazil, Ukraine, etc. is under discussion
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Educational Significances ofMicro/Nano/Pico-Satellite and CanSat ProjectsPractical Training of Whole Cycle of Space Project

Importance for Engineering EducationMission conceptualization, satellite design, fabrication, ground test,modification, launch and operation
Know what is important and what is not.
Synthesis (not Analysis) of an really working system
Feedbacks from the real world to evaluate design, test, etc.
Learning from failures (while project cost is small)

Education of Project Management

Four Managements: “Time, human resource, cost and risk”
Team work, conflict resolution, discussion, documentation
International cooperation, negotiation, mutual understanding

The effects were found more than expected !!
 Also contribute to other technological areas !!
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E-learning Course for Space Engineering E-learning course by Prof. Nakasuka triggers international collaboration

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Discussion

 Fund from Japanese gov. and international organization
JICA, Asian Development Bank, World BankTo arrange necessary fund, proposal from the development
countries are needed first, not from Japanese partner’s side.

Fund may be only for feasibility study or demonstration.
Acquiring funds for next phase like operation and make itsustainable is an issue.

 Human resources
Experienced peoples with international corporation are
graduated from universities, however difficult to keepthem for this activities
English and communication skills
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