TCU-01 Spacecraft - Nanosats Database

Satellite name	TCU-01 (TCU-1)
Spacecraft type	CubeSat
Units or mass	1U
Status	not launched, expected in 2027
Launcher	Interstellar ZERO
Entity name	Tokyo City University
Institution	University
Entity	Academic / Education
Country	Japan
Oneliner	Amateur radio mission with camera and SSTV transmission.
Description	Amateur radio signal transmission of digitally stored voice message in Analog FM modulation and digitally stored image in analog SSTV modulation (Scottie 1 format), and Getting the data of geomagnetic sensor and controlling satellite attitude with magnetic torquers using the data. The camera takes a picture of the Earth and transmits the captured data to Earth. The mission period is about two months. The amateur band transmission is open for the public. Voice messages and images digitally stored in the satellite are sent from the satellite to amateur radio stations on the ground by radio communication. This practice will contribute to the improvement of amateur radio communication scheme in the environment of low earth orbit satellites in which Doppler shift and communication time restriction less than 10 minutes are appeared..
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Last modified: 2025-12-29