What isthe Satellite Design Contest?

The Satellite Design Contest
 Contest style educational program for high school
students, vocational school students, technical college anduniversity students, and graduate students.
 Three categories; Design, Idea, Junior
 1st Selection: Excellent works to be screened with application
documents in the light of ideas, ingenuity, fundamental technicalknowledge, future prospects and so on
 Judges to give assessment results to all the works so that the students
who applied to the contest should keep motivation and step up for thefuture, with wishing the applicants challenge again.
 After the initial screening, selected students to make a presentation at
the final public review event. Based on the result, several excellent
works to be awarded.

The First Step to Space！
Study &Research
Work

Want todesign Sat.
Want to apply
learned technologies
to Space

Have new
Idea about
Space

Assessment
Specialist of Space Technologies✦✦ Challenge
Again
Launch Your Own
Satellite
Fabrication
intoSpace！
✦✦

Selection
AdvicesContestNotable Organization！
Contest is organized by…
 Leading Engineers from Sat Manufacturer and ResearchInstitute Leading Educators from Space Education in Universities
 Representatives from Space Education Support
Organization

 Careful incubation to applicant's work
 Kind advices on entries
 Efforts provided to implement for launch of contest
entriesHistory of the Satellite Design Contest
1993

International Space Year , the First Satellite Design Contest
Chiba Tech’s WEOS was awarded by IEICE

2002
2003

WEOS was launched by H-2A #4.

2005
2006
2007
2007
2009
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2014

Tokyo Univ.’s XI-IV, Tokyo Tech’s CUTE-1 were launched.
Junior Contest was introduced at #13 Satellite Design Contest.
Tokyo Univ.’s XI-V, Tokyo Tech’s CUTE-1.7+APD were launched.
Nihon Univ.’s SEED was launched (launch failure).
Tokyo Tech’s CUTE-1.7+APD II, Nihon Univ.’s SEED II were launched.
Tokyo Univ.(PRISM), Tohoku Univ.(SPRITE-SAT), TMCIT(KKS-1),
Kagawa Univ.(STARS) were launched as co-passengers payload
aboard H-2A #15.
Since then, many universities who attended this contest launchedtheir satellites as H-2A co-passenger payload; Kyushu Tech’s“Horyu4”, Shinshu Univ.’s “Shindai Sat”, Osaka Prefecture Univ.’s“OPUSAT”, Nihon Univ.’s “SPROUT”, Nagoya Univ.’s “ChubuSat-2”,
and others.

Major Awarded Works#1(1993)
IEICE Award#14(2006)
Idea Grand Prize

Toba CollegeChiba Tech

Small Globe where Daphnia lives in Space#18(2010)
Design Grand Prize#21(2013)
Design Grand Prize

WEOS

National Cheng Kung University
Atmosphere-Ionosphere
Coupling Explorer(AICE)#16(2008)
Design Grand Prize

Graduate School of Tokyo Tech.
TETRA#26(2018)

Minister of Education, Culture, Sports,
Science and Technology Award

National Cheng Kung University
Lunar ION ExploreR (LIONER)From Registration to the Selection
Registration Start

Submission of the work

Initial screening by documents

Registration and Preparing Outline
Let's refer to past works !

Consulting with Judges when
you have a question !

Sep-Oct

Nov
Final ReviewAugAssessment resultsJulEntry Deadline

Apr-May Jun

Detail Design
Model （Design & Idea Contest）
Poster （Junior Contest）

Submit advice sheet
to all entries！

Recent trends in number of applications
80

70

60
Junior

50

40

Idea

30

Desugn

20

100

2007
第15回

2008
第16回

2009
第17回

2010
第18回

2011
第19回

2012
第20回

2013
第21回

2014
第22回

2015
第23回

2016
第24回

2017
第25回

2018
第26回

2019
第27回

2020
第28回

2021
第29回

2022
第30回

Conclusion
Participation will be encouraged by an
Executive Committee, Judging members,and Project Committee.
Please do not hesitate to contact thesecretariat by email or phone for anyquestions.

Organizers
Host：

JSME(The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers)
JSASS (the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences)
IEICE(Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication
Engineers)
SGEPSS (The Society of Geomagnetism and Earth, Planetary andSpace Sciences)
ASJ (the Astronomical Society of Japan )JAXA(Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)
SPSS(Society for Promotion of Space Science)
JSF(Japan Space Forum)
Japanese Rocket Society
Co-organizer： The Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences
Supporter：
National Space Policy Secretariat, Cabinet Office,MEXT, MIC, METI, MOD
Steering：
Executive Committee of Satellite Design Contest