Mission type Atmospheric research COSPAR ID 2014-009G Inclination 65° Period 1.5 hours | SATCAT no. 39578 Launch date 27 February 2014 Inclination 65° Launch mass 1.5 kg | |
Website leo.sci.kagoshima-u.ac.jp/~n-lab/KSAT-HP/Ksat2_E.html Similar INVADER, ChubuSat‑1, Waseda‑SAT2, Hodoyoshi 3 | ||
KSAT-2, also known as Hayato-2 was a Japanese satellite constructed by Kagoshima University as a reflight of its KSAT mission. It has a size of 100x100x100mm (without extendible antenna boom) and is built around a standard 1U cubesat bus. The primary satellite payload is a radio-frequency water vapor detector for climatology research.
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