FITSat 1 (Niwaka)

Spacecraft nr:

Japanese spacecraft nr: 180

Launch data: Designation  98067CP Launch date  21 July 2012  Ejected from Kibo airlock on Oct 4, 2012 at 15:44 UT Launch site  Tanegashima, YLP-2 ISS Kibo, LEO Launch vehicle  H-2B-304 Mission  Technology Earth orbit: Perigee / Apogee   km Eccentricity   Inclination   deg Period   min

Remarks:

• FITSat 1 is launched on board of HTV 3 to the International Space Station, from where it will be deployed.
  
• The five cubesats ejected from Kibo on Oct 4, 2012 have been cataloged as 1998-067CN to 1998-067CS.
• The cubesats went into space on the 2012-038 (HTV-3) launch but USSTRATCOM, to whom the World Data Center at GSFC has delegated the naming process, has elected to label all ISS-associated objects with the Zarya module's launch number.
  
• Launched together with HTV 3, Raiko, We Wish, F 1, TechEdSat
  

Description:

• The mission is to demonstrate a high-speed transmission module for a small satellite and a visible light communication experiment by high power LEDs.

Mission details:

• The HTV-3 pressurized module contains 8 HTV Resupply Racks with station supplies and equipment, including two J-SSOD picosat deployers and the MPEP adapter. Later this year, astronauts will attach the J-SSOD packages to the MPEP and then put the MPEP in the Kibo module's small science airlock. When the airlock is opened to space, JAXA's JEM-RMS robot arm will grab the MPEP and stick it pointing in the desired direction. The J-SSODs will then shoot out their contents, five small satellites. The first J-SSOD carries RAIKO and WE WISH. The second J-SSOD carries three 1 kg single-cubes: F-1, TechEdSat and the FITSat 1 (Niwaka).
• On Oct 4, 2012 the two J-SSOD cubesat deployers were moved outside the Kibo equipment airlock by the JEM-RMS robot arm. The first J-SSOD ejected its payloads at 1432 UTC - the RAIKO and We Wish cubesats. The second J-SSOD deployed F-1, Niwaka, and TechEdSat at 1544 UTC.