| Name | CubeSOTA |
|---|---|
| Spacecraft type | CubeSat |
| Units or mass | 6U |
| Status | not launched, expected in 2024 |
| Launcher | not launched |
| Entity name | University of Tokyo |
| Institution | University |
| Entity type | Academic / Education |
| Country | Japan |
| Partners | Japan National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) |
| Oneliner |
10 Gbit/s lasercom terminal for intersatellite links with GEO and downlinks to ground. |
| Description |
Demonstration mission to test the technologies needed to perform lasercom between LEO and GEO while achieving data rates as high as 10 Gbit/s. The mission is called CubeSOTA as a continuation of the SOTA achievements. 6U CubeSat platform was selected to accommodate the bus system in ~3U and the lasercom payload in the other ~3U. Its deployment was assumed to be done from the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) in the International Space Station (ISS) by using the JEM Small Satellite Orbital Deployer (J-SSOD). The launch is foreseen to be during 2023, approximately one year after ETS-9 launch, with an operation longer than 6 months (total lifetime of a 6U CubeSat launched to a 400-km orbit is ~1.5 years. |
| Sources | [1] |
| Photo sources | [1] [2] |
| Keywords | Laser transmitter |
Last modified: 2023-12-15
