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SUMMARY:An Account of the World's First CubeSat
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Shinichi Nakasuka\nIncluding an overview on the micro/na
 no/pico-satellite activities in the University of Tokyo\n\nIn June 2003\,
  two Japanese universities\, University of Tokyo and Tokyo Institute of Te
 chnology successfully launched the world’s first CubeSats “XI-IV” an
 d “CUTE-1”\, using a Russian rocket together with four other universit
 ies’ CubeSats. That was the icebreaking event as to micro/nano/pico-sate
 llite development activities in Japan and in the world.  Triggered by the
  success of XI-IV and CUTE-1\, many universities in Japan started their ow
 n satellite projects\, mostly for educational objectives\, and 37 Japanese
  university satellites have been launched till now.\nUniversity of Tokyo a
 lready developed 14 satellites\, and 11 of them were launched and operated
  successfully in orbit.  Two CubeSats namely “XI-IV (2003)” and “XI
 -V (2005)” were primarily for space engineering education\, but from the
  third satellite mission\, “PRISM”\, we have been challenging towards 
 more practical applications such as remote sensing.  Our fourth satellite
  “Nano-JASMINE\,” which is now waiting for launch\, has an “Astromet
 ry” mission to obtain very precise 3D map of large number of stars in sp
 ace. From 2010\, I organized nationwide micro-satellite project named “H
 odoyoshi Project\,” through which\, three Earth remote sensing satellite
 s “Hodoyoshi-1\,3\,4” were launched in 2014 by Russian Dnepr\, which s
 howed excellent performance of taking Earth pictures of 6m\, 40m and 240m 
 ground resolutions\, with which we are now seeking practical applications 
 for agriculture\, forestry\, fishery\, disaster monitoring\, etc.  Based 
 on the bus technologies developed in Hodoyoshi Project\, in December 2014\
 , we launched the world’s first 50kg- class deep space probe “PROCYON\
 ,” which escaped from the Earth gravitational field and various observat
 ion and experiments were conducted successfully in deep space.  Based on 
 the obtained technologies\, we have been conducting and will soon finish d
 evelopment of 6U CubeSat “EQUULEUS” targeting towards Earth Lunar Lagr
 ange Point 2\, which will be launched by NASA’s SLS rocket in 2020-2021.
  Two 3U CubeSat were also launched in 2018 and 2019\, for “IoT” missio
 n to collect very weak signals from the ground.  One of them also has an 
 objective to support Rwanda on space capacity building\, too.\nIn this way
 \, University of Tokyo has been stepping up from education to practical ap
 plications of micro/nano/ pico-satellites\, and plans to extend their appl
 ications to wider areas.  In my talk\, I will show this history\, some te
 chnical details and discuss future possibilities of micro/nano/pico-satell
 ites. The merits of micro/nano/pico-satellites will also be described incl
 uding suitable missions for such satellites.\n\nProf. Nakasuka graduated f
 rom University of Tokyo in 1983 and got Ph.D in 1988.  He joined IBM Rese
 arch during 1988-1990\, and then worked for Department of Aeronautics and 
 Astronautics\, University of Tokyo as a lecturer in 1990\, as an Associate
  Professor in 1993\, and became a Professor in 2004.  His major research 
 areas include guidance\, navigation and control of spacecraft\, applicatio
 ns of artificial intelligence to space systems\, and novel space systems. 
 He developed and launched the world first 1kg CubeSat in 2003\, and since 
 then successfully launched eleven micro/nano/pico-satellites.  He lead th
 e governmentally funded “Hodoyoshi Project” during 2010-2014 to establ
 ish an infrastructure of developing and utilizing micro-satellites\, and b
 ecause of its excellent outcomes\, he received “Prime Minister Award” 
 in the 3rd Space Development and Utilization Award coordinated by Cabinet 
 Office of Japan.  He is a member of JSASS\, SICE\, and IAA\, and the form
 er Chairperson of IFAC Aerospace Technical Committee and current president
  of UNISEC-GLOBAL.  He has been a member of Space Policy Committee of Cab
 inet Office since 2012\, and played the central role to establish the curr
 ent basic plan of Japanese space policy issued in January 2015.\n\nhttps:/
 /www.space.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/nlab/about_e.html\nhttps://global.jaxa.jp/artic
 le/interview/vol25/index_e.html
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