Detailed Description
Cute-1.7+APD is the successor of the Cute-1 nano-satellite, developed and built by the second generation of students of the Tokyo Institute of Technology Matunaga Laboratory for Space System (LSS). The Avalanche Photo Diode sensor module, or APD experiment on this double-cube nano-satellite was also developed by the Tokyo Institute of Technology Kawaii Laboratory.
"Cute-1.7+APD"-#1 was launched on the JAXA M-V-#8 Rocket from the Kagoshima Space Center on 21 February 2006 into a 712 x 300 km elliptical orbit. The lifetime of "Cute-1.7 + APD " is estimated much less than one year for the shortest due to atmospheric reentry.
The separation mechanism for release in orbit was also developed at the Tokyo Institute of Technology Matunaga Laboratory for Space System.
Cute-1.7 + APD project is a satellite project developed mainly by students at Laboratory for Space Systems, Tokyo Institute of Technology. To launch our satellite in 2006, the project has started in January, 2004. It is the second satellite made in Tokyo Institute of Technology after the first one, CUTE-I, was launched in June, 2003.
This project is based on the international CubeSat project.
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