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Negai✰ [Soka University]
Negai✰ (Negai-Star or Negai-Boshi, formerly known as Excelsior) is a CubeSat mission built by Soka University. It is a space verification of an advanced information processing system using commercial FPGA.
The satellite was one of a number of secondary payloads on the H-2A-202 rocket, which launched the Planet C Venus orbiter.
| Nation: | Japan |
|---|---|
| Type / Application: | Technology |
| Operator: | Soka University |
| Contractors: | Soka University |
| Equipment: | |
| Configuration: | CubeSat (1U) |
| Propulsion: | None |
| Power: | Solar cells, batteries |
| Lifetime: | ? |
| Mass: | 1 kg |
| Orbit: | 286 km × 305 km, 29.97° |
| Satellite | COSPAR | Date | LS | Launch Vehicle | Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Negai✰ (Negai-Star, Negai-Boshi) (ex Excelsior) | 2010-020C | 20.05.2010 | Ta YLP-1 | H-2A-202 | with Planet C, IKAROS, DCAM 1, DCAM 2, UNITEC 1, Waseda-SAT2, KSAT |
Launch Sites:
- Ta = Tanegashima Space Center, Tanegashima, Japan
