WE WISH
| WE WISH | |
|---|---|
| Type: | Amateur radio satellite |
| Country: |
 Japan
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| COSPAR-ID : | 1998-067CS |
| Mission dates | |
| Size: | 10 x 10 x 10 cm³ |
| Begin: | July 21, 2012 |
| Starting place: | Tanegashima Space Center |
| Launcher: | H-2B |
| Status: | burned up |
| Orbit data | |
| Rotation time : | 92.8 min |
| Orbit inclination : | 51.6 ° |
| Apogee height : | 425 km |
| Perigee height : | 399 km |
| Eccentricity : | 0.00187 |
WE WISH (World Environmental Watching & Investigation from Space Height) was an earth observation and amateur radio satellite that was built by employees of Meisei Denki KK ( 明星 電 気 株式会社 , English Meisei Electric Co., Ltd. ).
Mission and Payload
Astronaut Akihiko Hoshide at the lock before the CubeSats are released
WE WISH was launched on July 21, 2012 in HTV-3 from the Tanegashima Space Center and brought to the International Space Station ISS . From there it was released into space on October 4, 2012, together with the four other CubeSats RAIKO , TechEdSat , FITSAT-1 and F-1 .
The main mission was an infrared camera , the images of which were sent to earth as an SSTV signal. In addition, the satellite transmitted in Morse code , AX.25 and in the 70 cm band . The callsign was JQ1ZJ.
The re-entry took place on March 11, 2013.
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Remarks
- ↑ The release into orbit took place on October 4, 2012