Design and development of Tokyo Tech pico-satellite Cute-1.7

Jun'ichi Kotoku; Jun Kataoka; Yusuke Kuramoto; Yoichi Yatsu; Tomoko Ikagawa; Takao Saito; Nobuyuki Kawai; Naoki Miyashita; Masafumi Iai; Kuniyuki Omagari; Ken Fujiwara; Yusuke Funaki; Hideyuki Yabe; Saburo Matunaga; Tatsushi Shima

doi:10.1117/12.614224

18 August 2005 Design and development of Tokyo Tech pico-satellite Cute-1.7

Jun'ichi Kotoku, Jun Kataoka, Yusuke Kuramoto, Yoichi Yatsu, Tomoko Ikagawa, Takao Saito, Nobuyuki Kawai, Naoki Miyashita, Masafumi Iai, Kuniyuki Omagari, Ken Fujiwara, Yusuke Funaki, Hideyuki Yabe, Saburo Matunaga, Tatsushi Shima

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Proceedings Volume 5898, UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XIV; 58980Z (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.614224
Event: Optics and Photonics 2005, 2005, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Cute-1.7 is a pico-satellite mainly developed by students at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech). This will be the second satellite built at Tokyo Tech after the first one, CUTE-I, which was launched in June 2003. The configuration of Cute-1.7 is a 10 cm × 10 cm × 20 cm box with a mass of 2 kg. The engineering objective of Cute-1.7 is to validate commercially available products such as Personal Digital Assistances (PDAs) in the space environment, and to demonstrate a "satellite core concept" which is dividing a satellite into a bus component and a mission component to adopt various missions. The scientific objective is to demonstrate the performance of avalanche photo diodes (APDs) as future X-ray detectors used in the space environment. Results of this mission will provide the first feedback for a space application of APD such as Japan's future X-ray astronomy mission NeXT.

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Jun'ichi Kotoku, Jun Kataoka, Yusuke Kuramoto, Yoichi Yatsu, Tomoko Ikagawa, Takao Saito, Nobuyuki Kawai, Naoki Miyashita, Masafumi Iai, Kuniyuki Omagari, Ken Fujiwara, Yusuke Funaki, Hideyuki Yabe, Saburo Matunaga, and Tatsushi Shima "Design and development of Tokyo Tech pico-satellite Cute-1.7", Proc. SPIE 5898, UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XIV, 58980Z (18 August 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.614224

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