RAISE-3 & Others

RAISE-3 (RApid Innovative payload demonstration Satellite-3) is a satellite for on-orbit demonstrations of 7 demonstration components and equipment selected by public solicitation. The satellite will be operated in response to requests from the demonstration theme proposers and will provide experimental data of the demonstration devices and environmental data during the experiments.

5 CubeSats for various Japanese institutions and companies.

QPS-SAR is a series of small high-resolution X-band SAR (synthetic aperture radar) earth observation satellites by the QPS Institute (iQPS). These satellites are the first operational satellites of a planned constellation of 36 satellites. The satellites feature a 3.6 m diameter antenna of only 10 kg. It can distinguish objects 0.7 m long and identify cars on the road. Compared to the prototypes (QPS-SAR 1, 2), these satellites have increased power due to two deployable solar arrays and increased battery capacity. Also, they feature thrusters for station keeping.