Eight CubeSats successfully deployed from "Kibo"!

Experiment at Kibo

On March 14, 2021, eight CubeSats, OPUSAT-II developed by Osaka Prefecture University, Japan, *GuaraniSat-1 co-developed by Paraguayan Space Agency, Paraguay and Kyushu Institute of Technology (Kyutech), *Maya-2 co-developed by the University of the Philippines Diliman and Kyutech, *Tsuru developed by Kyutech, RSP-01 developed by ReymanSat Spaces (Japan), WARP-01 developed by WARP Space Inc. (Japan), TAUSAT-1 developed by Tel Aviv University (Israel), and STARS-EC developed by Shizuoka University and STARS Space Service Inc. (Japan) were successfully deployed from the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) "Kibo".

*BIRDS-4 Project (Officially called the Joint Global Multi Nation Birds) is an international joint development and operations project of CubeSats, participated by the Kyushu Institute of Technology in Japan, and certain Asian and African nations. The three CubeSats handed over as mentioned above are for the fourth round of the programme.
Japan, Paraguay, and Philippines in this round of the programme, developing a CubeSat for each in about 12 months, a small cube-shaped satellite with 10 cm on each side. They named their CubeSats Tsuru (Japan), GuaraniSat-1 (Paraguay), and Maya-2 (Philippines), among which the GuaraniSat-1 is the first satellite of the Paraguay.

1st Deployment：OPUSAT-II, BIRDS-4 (GuaraniSat-1, Maya-2, Tsuru), RSP-01 ⓒJAXA/NASA

Video: Small Satellites Deployment J-SSOD#16 from "Kibo"

Name	OPUSAT-II
Size	2U
Organization	Osaka Prefecture University (Japan)
Mission	Demonstrating an on-orbit measurement system for deployable structure Demonstrating a high-performance communication technology Measuring vibration of a deployable antenna to identify the Dynamical model of a flexible structure on orbit

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Name	BIRDS-4
Size	1U each
Organization	Agencia Espacial del Paraguay (Paraguayan Space Agency, Republic of Paraguay) University of the Philippines Diliman (Republic of the Philippines) Kyushu Institute of Technology (Japan)
Mission	Developing space human resources in emerging countries and creating the basis for a sustainable space program Demonstration of Perovskite Solar Cells Demonstration of HENTENA using satellite structure

Name	RSP-01
Size	1U
Organization	ReymanSat Spaces (Japan)
Mission	Send the picture of satellite itself, taken by onboard camera. Send the High-Definition picture taken by onboard camera. Demonstrate the autonomous operation of the machine learning. - Select the well-taken picture, such as the one satellite, moon, and earth in the same frame, and the one without blurring. - Understand the meaning of text message from earth and respond the contextual message by satellite itself. Demonstration of reaction wheel function.

Name	WARP-01
Size	1U
Organization	WARP Space Inc. (Japan)
Mission	To demonstrate new satellite bus components To carry wedding memorial plates to space To take pictures of the earth and space To survey the radiation environment in space To survey the radio environment in space

Name	TAUSAT-1
Size	3U
Organization	Tel Aviv University (State of Israel)
Mission	To monitor the effects of energetic particles and other molecular compounds in low-Erath orbits.

Name	STARS-EC
Size	3U
Organization	Shizuoka University and STARS Space Service Inc. (Japan)
Mission	To analyze the behavior of mini in-orbit elevator by using 3U CubeSat containing three-1U CubeSat connected by a tether.

Eight CubeSats successfully deployed from "Kibo"!

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