Two CubeSats successfully deployed from "Kibo"!

Experiment at Kibo

On March 24, 2022, following two CubeSats were successfully deployed from the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) "Kibo":

IHI-SAT

IHI-SAT is the first CubeSat developed by IHI Corporation. (J-SSOD service provider : Space BD Inc.)　

KITSUNE

KITSUNE is the first Wide 6 U (W6U) CubeSat deployment for J-SSOD and it is developed by the first-time collaboration with HAK Consortium（HARADA SEIKI, Co., Ltd., Addnics Co., Kyushu Institute of Technology.）(J-SSOD service provider : Mitsui Bussan Aerospace Co., Ltd.)

KITSUNE launch to ISS (Japanese)

You can view the deployment of CubeSats from YouTube JAXA Channel.

Satellite	IHI-SAT [Size：3U]
Organizations	IHI Corporation
Service provider	Space BD Inc.
Mission	Demonstration of advanced AIS (Automatic Identification System) receiving system
	© IHI Corporation

Satellite	KITSUNE [Size：W6U]
Organization	HAK Consortium (HARADA SEIKI, Co., Ltd., Addnics Co., Kyushu Institute of Technology)
Service provider	Mitsui Bussan Aerospace Co., Ltd.
Mission	Earth observation with 5-m class resolution color images by COTS camera Development of 2U size Kyutech standard bus system Space Precision Atomic-clock TIming Utility Mission (SPATIUM)-2 for total electron content measurements in ionosphere Demonstration of LORA module Store and Forward from the sensor terminals of BIRDS countries Demonstrate C-band communication from the main and mobile ground stations Downlink of low-resolution images from a secondary camera by C-band uplink commands
	© HAK Consortium

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