HITSAT

HITSAT
Country:	Japan
COSPAR-ID :	2006-041F
Mission dates
Dimensions:	2.7 kg
Size:	12 cm × 12 cm × 12 cm
Begin:	September 22, 2006, 21:36 UTC
Starting place:	Uchinoura
Launcher:	MV
Status:	burned up on June 18, 2008
Orbit data
Rotation time :	94 min
Orbit inclination :	98.32 °
Apogee height :	663 km
Perigee height :	279 km

HITSAT (also OSCAR 59 , HO-59 ) was a Japanese technology testing and amateur radio satellite owned by the Hokkaido Institute of Technology .

It had the shape of a cube with an edge length of 12 centimeters and a mass of 2.7 kg. On board were a 100 mW strong CW propagation and telemetry beacon, which transmitted on 437.275 MHz , and an FM transmitter on 437.425 MHz with a 145.980 MHz uplink .

HITSAT was launched on September 22, 2006 from the Uchinoura Space Center as a secondary payload together with the Hinode Space Telescope and SSSat on an MV rocket and was used to train students.

Web links

• HIT-SAT project website ( Memento from May 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Japanese)
• Description of the satellite in ESA's eoPortal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ HITsat in the NSSDCA Master Catalog , accessed on May 3, 2014 (English).
2. ↑ Gunter cancer: HITSAT 1 (Camatai, OSCAR 59, HO 59). Gunter's Space Page, April 5, 2014, accessed May 2, 2014 .