| Spacecraft | ARICA (AGU Remote Innovative CubeSat Alert) |
|---|---|
| Spacecraft type | CubeSat |
| Units or mass | 1U |
| Status | No signal (Official updates on crowdfunding site as of 2021-12-29. Unsure whether some initial packets received, but Iridium uplink not working.) |
| Launched | 2021-11-09 |
| NORAD ID | ? |
| Deployer | J-POD (JAXA Picosatellite Deployer),? |
| Launcher | Epsilon |
| Entity name | Aoyama Gakuin University |
| Institution | University |
| Entity type | Academic / Education |
| Country | Japan |
| Manufacturer | AIVT by ? |
| Oneliner |
Demonstrate Iridium and Globalstar modemds for real-time alert system. |
| Description |
1U CubeSat called AGU Remote Innovative CubeSat Alert system (ARICA) which contains both SBD and STX-3 to demonstrate the real-time GRB alert system. ARICA does not develop the satellite bus section, but uses ready-made ones and develops only the mission section. We demonstrate the real-time alert system of the transient astronomical sources such as cosmic gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) using two commercial satellite network devices. One is the Iridium’s Short Burst Data (SBD) and the other is the Globalstar’s STX-3. Although these satellite communication devices have been used in the space environment, it still needs to verify whether the network can be used as a GRB alert system. |
| Sources | [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] |
| Photo sources | [1] [2] [3] |
| COTS subsystems |
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| Subsystems sources | [1] |
| Keywords | Globalstar or Iridium or Inmarsat |
Last modified: 2023-12-16
