News
- The website design was updated. Full site coming soon!
- ALE-2 was successfully launched!
- ALE-1 and RISESAT were successfully launched!
- A new website was created for the Kuwahara Laboratory.
Press Release
ALE-1 successfully deployed the DOM®: De-Orbit Mechanism
On December 25, 2019, the ALE Co., Ltd.'s artificial shooting star demonstration satellite ALE-1 successfully deployed its thin-film de-orbit device, the DOM®: De-Orbit Mechanism. DOM® was researched and developed as a collaboration between Tohoku University and Nakashimada Engineering Works, Ltd. Its deployment was also successfully recorded.
RISESAT captured the aftermath of the Taal Volcano eruption
The aftermath of the January 12 eruption of Taal Volcano, located on Luzon island in the Philippines, was photographed using the Ocean Observation Camera payload on the RISESAT microsatellite. The image, shown below, was captured at approximately 9:58 am on January 23rd. It was created by mapping the 490nm, 555nm, and 869nm bands of the Ocean Observation Camera to blue, green, and red respectively to produce what is known as a "false-color" image. Red indicates vegetation, as plants reflect near-infrared light. The grey area around Taal lake in the lower right side of the image reveals an area devoid of vegetation, covered by volcanic ash.
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Kuwahara Laboratory's project was accepted by Tohoku University's Frontier Research in Duo (FRiD) Initiative
A new research project that seeks to investigate life support mechanisms in the space environment has been accepted as part of Tohoku University's Frontier Research in Duo (FRiD) initiative, which began in September 2019. This project aims to develop the world's first CubeSat with a biological mission: the Tohoku University Biosatellite Cube (TU BioCube).