TY - JOUR
T1 - Pre-flight performance and radiation hardness of the Tokyo Tech pico-satellite Cute-1.7
AU - Kotoku, J.
AU - Kataoka, J.
AU - Kuramoto, Y.
AU - Tsubuku, Y.
AU - Yatsu, Y.
AU - Sato, R.
AU - Ikagawa, T.
AU - Saito, T.
AU - Kawai, N.
AU - Konoue, K.
AU - Miyashita, N.
AU - Iai, M.
AU - Omagari, K.
AU - Kashiwa, M.
AU - Yabe, H.
AU - Imai, K.
AU - Miyamoto,
AU - Fujiwara, K.
AU - Masumoto, S.
AU - Usuda, T.
AU - Iljic, T.
AU - Konda, A.
AU - Sugita, S.
AU - Yamanaka, T.
AU - Matsuura, D.
AU - Sagami, T.
AU - Kajiwara, S.
AU - Funaki, Y.
AU - Matsunaga, S.
AU - Shima, T.
AU - Kishimoto, S.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is partly supported by a 21st Century COE Program at Tokyo Tech “Nanometer-Scale Quantum Physics”, and Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (nos. 14GS0221 and 14079102) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan. J. Kataoka and S. Matsunaga acknowledge support by JSPS. KAKENHI(16206080) to complete the Cute-1.7 mission. J. Kotoku is a JSPS fellow.
PY - 2006/9/15
Y1 - 2006/9/15
N2 - The Cute-1.7 was launched successfully in February 2006 as a piggyback satellite of the Astro-F mission. The Cute-1.7 dimensions are 10 × 10 × 20 cm3 box with a total mass of 3.6 kg. It is the second pico-satellite to have been developed completely by students of the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech.) after the successful launch of the CUTE-I in June 2003. The goals of the Cute-1.7 mission are two-fold: (1) to validate high-performance, commercially available products for the first time in space. We particularly use personal digital assistants (PDAs) as a main computer in orbit (2) to demonstrate new potential uses for small satellites in various space studies, as proposed by the "satellite-core" concept. For the Cute-1.7 mission, we will carry avalanche photo diodes (APDs) as a high-count particle monitor in low-Earth orbit. Here we present details of various ground tests and pre-flight performance of the Cute-1.7 immediately before the launch. Results of the Cute-1.7 mission will provide quick feedback for space applications of APDs in Japan's future X-ray astronomy mission NeXT.
AB - The Cute-1.7 was launched successfully in February 2006 as a piggyback satellite of the Astro-F mission. The Cute-1.7 dimensions are 10 × 10 × 20 cm3 box with a total mass of 3.6 kg. It is the second pico-satellite to have been developed completely by students of the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech.) after the successful launch of the CUTE-I in June 2003. The goals of the Cute-1.7 mission are two-fold: (1) to validate high-performance, commercially available products for the first time in space. We particularly use personal digital assistants (PDAs) as a main computer in orbit (2) to demonstrate new potential uses for small satellites in various space studies, as proposed by the "satellite-core" concept. For the Cute-1.7 mission, we will carry avalanche photo diodes (APDs) as a high-count particle monitor in low-Earth orbit. Here we present details of various ground tests and pre-flight performance of the Cute-1.7 immediately before the launch. Results of the Cute-1.7 mission will provide quick feedback for space applications of APDs in Japan's future X-ray astronomy mission NeXT.
KW - Avalanche photo-diode
KW - Cute-1.7
KW - PDA
KW - Pico-satellite
KW - Satellite core
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U2 - 10.1016/j.nima.2006.05.247
DO - 10.1016/j.nima.2006.05.247
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33748065671
VL - 565
SP - 677
EP - 685
JO - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
JF - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
SN - 0168-9002
IS - 2
ER -