YODAKA Spacecraft - Nanosats Database

Spacecraft	YODAKA (AE1b, TANKA)
Type	CubeSat
Units or mass	3U
Status	Reentry 2025-02-28. Was operational? (Official press release on 2024-12-10 but SatNOGS has not received as of 2024-12-28)
Launched	2024-11-05
NORAD ID	62295
Deployer	J-SSOD (JEM Small Satellite Orbital Deployer)
Launcher	Falcon 9 (CRS-31)
Deployment	Deployed from ISS on 2024-12-09
Organization	ArkEdge Space
Institution	Company
Entity	Commercial
Nation	Japan
Manufacturer	AIVT by ArkEdge Space
Operator	ArkEdge Space
Launch brokerer	Space BD
Partners	Taiwan Space Agency (TASA), SPACE VALUE, Space BD, Hanamaki Kita High School
Oneliner	Unique experiment of composing Japanese tanka poems.
Description	This project was developed as part of the “Hanamaki Space Project UP Hanamaki,” organized by SPACE VALUE (Headquarters: Hanamaki City, Iwate Prefecture; Representative: Shuichi Ando) and Space BD Inc. (Headquarters: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; co-founder and CEO: Masatoshi Nagasaki). The satellite with a mission developed by students from Hanamaki Kita High School (location: Hanamaki City, Iwate Prefecture, Principal: Nobuaki Sasaki), was named “YODAKA” (Nighthawk in Japanese) after the work of Kenji Miyazawa, a Japanese novelist, poet, and writer from Hanamaki City from the 1890s to the 1930s. For this mission, ArkEdge Space is responsible for the design, development, production, and operation of these satellites as part of our project to develop a 6U standard multi-purpose bus, which is funded by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) in 2021 and, from fiscal year of 2023 and beyond, has been funded by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) for the project “Research and Development Project for Information Infrastructure Improvement for Space Industry Technology (Development and Verification Support for Multi-purpose Bus for Nano-Satellites)”, and “Development and Demonstration of a 6U Standard Multi-purpose Bus and its Production and Operation System for Rapid and Efficient Production of Multiple Types of Satellites”. Specifically, this multi-purpose bus development supports the efficient production and operation of standard 6U satellite buses and their systems, an automatic operation system for multiple satellites to start full operation. The YODAKA satellite mission plans to conduct a unique experiment of composing Japanese tanka poems, consisting of five lines in the pattern of 5-7-5 as the first verse and 7-7 as the last verse, totaling 31-syllables, from the ground and combining them to generate original poems in orbit approximately from February to March 2025.
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On the same launch	DENDEN-01 LignoSat ONGLAISAT YODAKA YOMOGI

Last modified: 2025-04-25