CO-57

CubeSat OSCAR CO-57 (XI-IV / SAI FOUR)

XI IV Sai FourDevelopment started in 2000, and the flight model was completed in 2002. This XI-IV is the first handmade nano-satellite developed by ISSL. XI-IV is the world smallest satellite as of the launch date, which satisfies the CubeSat regulation of “10cm cube and 1kg”. In addition, XI-IV is just 100th satellite put into orbit by Japan.

XI-IV was launched on June 30, 2003, from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia. The launching vehicle is named “ROCKOT”, converted from the ballistic missile. This time we made a contract directly with Eurockot, which is the joint venture of Germany and Russia. XI-IV is an amateur satellite using amateur band. The following information would be required to receive data from XI-IV.

Orbital parameters

Name                 XI-IV
NORAD                27848
COSPAR designation   2003-031-J
Inclination (degree) 98.719
RAAN                 197.951
Eccentricity         0.0009756
ARGP                 340.615
Orbit per day        14.20194952
Period               1h 41m 23s (101.38 Min)
Semi-major axis      7203 km
Perigee x apogee     818 x 832 km
Drag factor          0.000060584 1/ER
Mean Anomaly         19.463

Downlink

437,490 MHz FM AFSK AX.25, 1k2, 800mW, Half wave dipole
436,8475 MHz CW 50wpm, 100mW. Half wave dipole

Call

JQ1YCW

Status

Aktive, Telemetry AX25 downlink will be performed only when XI-IV is passing above Japan.

Telemetry

CW Beacon Format

[UT1 WWW.SPACE.T.U-TOKYO.AC.JP  URL of ISSL.
[UT2 AA BB CC]                  Time information.
[UT3 DD EE FF GG]
     DD, EE:Status information.
           FF[0]: OBC's state.(0:alive,1:dead)
           FF[1]: Tx-TNC's state.(0:waiting, 1:sending)
           FF[2]~[7]: (undefined)
              GG: Max. of RSSI.
[UT4 HH II JJ]
     HH: BATT V.
        II: Solar REF.
            JJ: Tmp BATT.
[UT5 KL MN OP]
Upper bits of Solar I - each data(4bit)*6=3byte.
[UT6 QR ST UV WX GG]
     Q~X is Upper bits(4big) of each data.
     Q~V: Temperature of each panel.
              W : Temperature of battery.
               X : Temperature of FM tramsmitter.
                 GG : Max. of RSSI.

CO-57 CW Telemetry

Listen to an example


Homepage and other references:

http://www.space.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/gs/en/index.html