Design and development of Tokyo Tech pico-satellite Cute-1.7
著者
和文:
Kotoku, J.,
片岡 淳,
Kuramoto, Y.,
Yatsu, Y.,
Ikagawa, T.,
Saito, T.,
河合 誠之,
Miyashita, N.,
Iai, M.,
Omagari, K.,
Fujiwara, K.,
Funaki, Y.,
Yabe, H.,
Matunaga, S.,
Shima, T. ..
英文:
Kotoku, J.,
Kataoka, J.,
Kuramoto, Y.,
Yatsu, Y.,
Ikagawa, T.,
Saito, T.,
Kawai, N.,
Miyashita, N.,
Iai, M.,
Omagari, K.,
Fujiwara, K.,
Funaki, Y.,
Yabe, H.,
Matunaga, S.,
Shima, T. ..
言語
English
掲載誌/書名
和文:
英文:
UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XIV. Edited by Siegmund, Oswald H. W. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 5898, pp. 279-288 (2005).
Cute-1.7 is a pico-satellite mainly developed by students at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech). This will be the second satellite built at Tokyo Tech after the first one, CUTE-I, which was launched in June 2003. The configuration of Cute-1.7 is a 10 cm × 10 cm × 20 cm box with a mass of 2 kg. The engineering objective of Cute-1.7 is to validate commercially available products such as Personal Digital Assistances (PDAs) in the space environment, and to demonstrate a "satellite core concept" which is dividing a satellite into a bus component and a mission component to adopt various missions. The scientific objective is to demonstrate the performance of avalanche photo diodes (APDs) as future X-ray detectors used in the space environment. Results of this mission will provide the first feedback for a space application of APD such as Japan's future X-ray astronomy mission NeXT.