Space Systems

• RAISE-2
• SLATS
• ETS-VIII
• SERVIS
• USERS

RAISE-2

Platform for developing small 100kg-class satellites equipped with standard components and equipment

• Client

  Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

• Launch date

  FY2021

• Launch Vehicle

  Epsilon

• Launch site

  Uchinoura Space Center (USC)

• Orbit

  Sun synchronous orbit

• Mass

  Approx. 1t

• Electrical power

  200W

• Design life

  1 years or longer

• Responsibilities

  Prime contractor

SLATS

Developing super low orbits and creating a new satellite

• Client

  Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

• Launch date

  December 23, 2017 (JST)

• Launch Vehicle

  H-IIA

• Launch site

  Tanegashima Space Center

• Orbit

  －

• Weight

  383 kg

• Design life

  2 years or longer

• Operation
  End Date

  October 1st, 2019

• Responsibilities

  Prime contractor

ETS-VIII

ETS-VIII is a geostationary satellite bus mounted with two of the world's largest antennas (19mx17m), developed primarily to establish and verify technologies such as higher-traffic processing, mobile telecommunications, and high-accuracy satellite positioning, all of which are essential for space missions at the beginning of the 21st century.

The ETS-VIII's missions are to develop technologies, and test and verify them in space. The targeted technologies include mobile-satellite communications, mobile-satellite digital multimedia, and basic technologies for building satellite positioning systems, through large-scale geosynchronous satellite bus technologies for 3-ton class satellites -- the world's largest class in the early 2000s. The ETS-VIII also targets such large-scale deployable antenna technologies as 13 meter-class deployable antennas, and high-accuracy time standard systems and other positioning equipment.

• Client

  JAXA

• Launch date

  December 18, 2006

• Launch Vehicle

  H-IIA

• Launch site

  Tanegashima Space Center

• Orbit

  Geostationary orbit

• Mass

  Approx. 5.8t (at launch)

• Electrical power

  7,500 W

• Design life

  10 years (satellite bus)
  3 years (mission craft)

• Responsibilities

  Prime contractor

SERVIS

Verifies the performance of parts and equipment supplied by the private sector in space by applying to actual spacecraft for low-cost, short-cycle, high-quality (CFB) satellites.
The development of SERVIS 1 and 2 will result in a low-cost commercial bus.

Space Environmental Reliability Verification Integrated System (SERVIS) Mission: Verify civilian parts and equipment in space for low-cost, short-cycle, high-quality (CFB) satellites. The development of SERVIS 1 and 2 will result in a low-cost commercial bus.

• Client

  Institute for Unmanned Space Experiment Free Flyer (USEF)

• Launch date

  #1 : October 30, 2003
  #2 : June 2, 2010

• Launch Vehicle

  #1 : Rokot
  #2 : Rokot

• Launch site

  #1 : Plesetsk Space Center, Russia
  #2 : Plesetsk Space Center, Russia

• Orbit

  #1 : Altitude: 1,000 - 1,500 km Circular orbit, Inclination: 30 deg.
  #2 : Altitude: 1,000 km or higher Circular orbit, Inclination: 97 deg.

• Mass

  #1 : Approx. 980 kg
  #2 : Approx. 980 kg

• Electrical power

  #1 : 1,200 W
  #2 : 1,300 W

• Design life

  #1 : 5 years
  #2 : 1 year

• Responsibilities

  Prime contractor