INDEX (Reimei)

INDEX [ISAS]

INDEX (Innovative Technology Demonstration Experiment) is a Japanese microsatellite of JAXA/ISAS (Institute of Space and Astronomical Science).

The objective is to use INDEX as

• a demonstration satellite of advanced engineering technologies, and
• to support of a small-scale astronomical science mission (fine structural observation of the aurora).

After successfully reaching orbit, INDEX has been renamed Reimei.