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2013-01-25 16:40
Presumption of Trajectory Deviations of a Cubesat Orbiting at Very Low Altitude based on Ku-band Beacon Observations Masanori Nishio, Sho Miyamoto, Chiho Kitasako, Takehito Morimatsu, Hiroki Morita, Masaru Nakano, Sayuri Wago, Chizuru Yamamichi (Kagoshima Univ.), Yuji Sakamoto (Tohoku Univ.) AP2012-157 |
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In Kagoshima University, development of a pico-satellite KSAT2 with a size of 10-cm cube is in progress in cooperation with local companies. This satellite is going to be orbited into an altitude of 400 km, and be affected a big orbital disturbance with the atmospheric drag. Therefore, a Ku-band beacon transmitter is equipped in the satellite for exploring a position of the satellite from the ground. The transmitter has an output of 1~mW and is installed separately from a transmitter for telemetry. Pico-satellite RAIKO equipped with a transmitter about the same with KSAT-2 was launched in the beginning of October, 2012. The satellite development group of Kagoshima University is receiving the Ku-band beacon of this satellite to check the orbit change of the satellite. In this report, situations of the Ku-band beacon reception and the satellite orbit change in the low altitude are shown. |
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Pico-Satellite / Low Earth Orbit / Orbit Determination / Atmospheric Drag / Doppler Shift / Orbit Estimation / / |
Reference Info. |
IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 112, no. 384, AP2012-157, pp. 187-191, Jan. 2013. |
Paper # |
AP2012-157 |
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2013-01-16 (AP) |
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Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685 Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380 |
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