TAKA @ Nanosats Database

Name	TAKA (BIRDS-5)
Type	CubeSat
Units or mass	1U
Status	No signal? (Unable to find confirmed successful signal reception reports as of 2022-12-20)
Launched	2022-11-07
NORAD ID	54536 ?
Deployer	J-SSOD (JEM Small Satellite Orbital Deployer)
Launcher	Antares (NG-18)
Deployment	Deployed from ISS on 2022-12-02
Organisation	Kyushu Institute of Technology
Institution	University
Entity	Academic / Education
Nation	Japan
Manufacturer	AIVT by Kyushu Institute of Technology
Launch brokerer	JAXA
Oneliner	Educational and amateur radio mission.
Description	BIRDS 5 Mission Statement Build Uganda and Zimbabwe’s first satellite while improving the standardized bus system for future missions, giving continuity to the satellite development of Japan and previous missions from BIRDS-1,2,3 and 4. Primary Objective(s) To design, build, test, launch and operate Uganda and Zimbabwe’s first satellite To demonstrate the multispectral camera and DLP feasibility on 1U CubeSat To give continuity to three missions; attitude visualisation, Imaging classification Mission (IMG-CLS) and Store & Forward (SF- WARD) To demonstrate Particle Instrument for Nano-satellite(PINO) To serve the Amateur radio community with APRS-Digipeater mission (APRS-DP) Secondary Objective(s) To give continuity to 2U structure for further projects To demonstrate on-board image processing and classification To demonstrate mounting of three Raspberry Pi on a 1U CubeSat
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Last modified: 2022-12-29
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TAKA (BIRDS-5)

BIRDS 5 Mission Statement