[amsat-bb] next deployment from ISS by J-SSOD

[Masahiro Arai]

The JAXA announced four CubeSats deployment from ISS by the JEM Small
Satellite Orbital Deployer (J-SSOD).

The four CubeSats are followings.

PicoDragon
 1U CubeSat
 Developer: Vietnam National Satellite Center(VNSC), University of
            Tokyo, IHI aerospace

ArduSat-1 and ArduSat-X
 1U CubeSat
 Developer: Nanorack, NanoSatisfi

TechEdSat-3
 3U CubeSat
 Developer: NASA Ames Research Center

PicoDragon, ArduSat-1 and ArduSat-X operates on amateur band.
TechEdSat-3 could not find on the IARU Amateur Satellite Frequency
Coordination list.

All the satellites sent ISS by the HTV4 at 4th August. The HTV4 is
also known as HamTV set vehicle.

Deployment is planed from October 2013 to March 2014.


Masa  JN1GKZ   Tokyo Japan