K-SAT (Hayato)

K-SAT

K-SAT (Kagoshima Satellite, also named Hayato) is a small CubeSat mission developed by the Kagoshima University, which has following objectives:

• Observation experiments of atmospheric vapor distribution for predicting localized heavy rain
• Shooting moving images of the Earth through microwave high-speed communications
• Basic communication experiment for super-small positioning satellites

Contact with the satellite was not established after launch.