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The photos taken by PRISM are Here

"Mr.Inamori got the honor of Best Technical Paper at International Astronautics Congress(IAC) in Korea"

Mr. Inamori presented his study at IAC, and got the honor of "British Interplanetary Society Prize for presenting the Best Technical Content Paper".
This honor is given to the best technical paper.

The title of paper is "Magnetic dipole moment estimation and compensation for accurate attitude control in nano-satellite missions"

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“Success to take an image with main camera”

Now, we try to take a fine image with main camera.
Below image is the latest one.
(Original image is greenish by camera's nature.)
(All the images which we have taken are shown image gallery.)

We have taken the image at West Coast, considering that there is not much cloud in usual, and we could get the image that enable us to verify the ground.

before adjust after adjust

The curve line at the bottom part of image may be coast line.

impress the coast line

We tried to find the place of the image ,,,, and we can find the place!!



A new age of remote-sensing by super small satellites is coming !!
We will adjust the parameter with analysis of this image.

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“Success to deploy the extensible boom”

We have succeeded to deploy the extensible boom!!
Extensible boom is optical telescope composed of flexible architecture. This structure is our new idea for taking images at high resolution with super small satellite (Detail is on About project page).
If this boom will work expectedly and take the image with main-camera (NAC), we will complete our main mission.

We use sub-camera's picture for confirming that boom has been deployed. Below pictures are "before deployment","after deployment". The figure identified on the upper right side is boom structure.
We can find the shadow which was not exist before deployment.
As a reference data, we also show the image (boom was deployed) taken on ground test.

before　after　ground

We estimate that boom has been deployed with these three pictures.
Additionally, the evidence is found in angular rate data.

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"Launched successfully & receive from PRISM "

H2A rocket successfully launched on 12:54 23.Jan.
That day's afternoon, we received the radio wave from PRISM.
We have confirmed that PRISM have started operation in space.
Now we continue to contact and analyze the data.
Real time report is published on blog site, please check it.

photo:

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"Data format of PRISM is published"

-> The basic specification of Sat is Here
-> The analysis software is Here

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