Journal Papers

[2020]
  1. Structural Design and Verification of Aeronomy Study Satellite ALE-1
    Pasith TANGDHANAKANOND, Toshinori KUWAHARA, Yoshihiko SHIBUYA, Tomoyuki HONDA, Alperen PALA, Shinya FUJITA, Yuji SATO, Tomomasa SHIBUYA, and Koh KAMACHI
    Transactions of Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Science (JSASS) Aerospace Technology Japan (in-press)  PDF file
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  2. Double Fail-Safe Attitude Control System for Artificial Meteor Microsatellite ALE-1
    Shinya Fujita, Yuji Sato, Toshinori Kuwahara, Yuji Sakamoto, Yoshihiko Shibuya, Koh Kamachi
    Transactions of Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Science (JSASS) Aerospace Technology Japan (in-press)  PDF file
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  3. System Design, Development and Ground Verification of a Separable De-orbit Mechanism for the Orbital Manoeuvre of Micro-satellite ALE-1
    Alperen PALA, Toshinori KUWAHARA, Tomoyuki HONDA, Hiroki UTO, Tetsuya KANEKO, Adrien POTIER, Pasith TANGDHANAKANOND, Shinya FUJITA, Yoshihiko SHIBUYA, Yuji SATO, Tomomasa SHIBUYA, and Koh KAMACHI
    Transactions of Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Science (JSASS) Aerospace Technology Japan (in-press)  PDF file
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  4. Establishment of the Ground Evaluation and Operational Training System of Artificial Meteor Micro-satellite ALE-1
    Yuji SATO, Shinya FUJITA, Toshinori KUWAHARA, Tomoyuki HONDA, Yuji SAKAMOTO,Yoshihiko SHIBUYA, and Koh KAMACHI
    Transactions of Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Science (JSASS) Aerospace Technology Japan (in-press)  PDF file
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  5. A High Spatial Resolution Multispectral Sensor on the RISESAT Microsatellite
    Junichi KURIHARA, Toshinori KUWAHARA, Shinya FUJITA, Yuji SATO, Kosuke HANYU, Morokot SAKAL, Yu MURATA, Hannah TOMIO, Yukihiro TAKAHASHI, and Wing-Huen IP
    Transactions of Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Science (JSASS) Aerospace Technology Japan (in-press)  PDF file
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  6. Commercial uncooled micro bolometer camera applied to 50 kg class satellite
    Tetsuya Fukuhara, Yuji Sakamoto, Toshinori Kuwahara, Nobuo Sugimura, Kazuya Yoshida, Yukihiro Takahashi
    IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 17, 2, (2020), 332-336  PDF file
    DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2019.2918197
[2019]
  1. RISEPix — A Timepix-based radiation monitor telescope onboard the RISESAT satellite,
    Robert Filgas, Milan Malich, Toshinori Kuwahara, Jan Broulim, Michael Holik, Morokot Sakal, Yu Murata, Hannah Tomio, Stefan Gohl, Johan M. Pineda T.
    Astronomische Nachrichten, 340, 7, (2019), 674-680  PDF file
    DOI: 10.1002/asna.201913674
  2. Development and Ground Evaluation of Ground-Target Tracking Control of Microsatellite RISESAT
    Shinya FUJITA, Yuji SATO, Toshinori KUWAHARA, Yuji SAKAMOTO, Kazuya YOSHIDA
    Transactions of Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Science (JSASS) Aerospace Technology Japan, 17, 2, (2019), 120-126  PDF file
    DOI: 10.2322/tastj.17.120
  3. Orbit Verification Result of De-orbit Mechanism Demonstration CubeSat FREEDOM
    Hiroki UTO, Toshinori KUWAHARA, Tomoyuki HONDA
    Transactions of Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Science (JSASS) Aerospace Technology Japan, 17, 3, (2019), 295-300  PDF file
    DOI: 10.2322/tastj.17.295
[2018]
  1. Development and Ground Evaluation of Fast Tracking Algorithm for Star Trackers
    Yuji SATO, Toshinori KUWAHARA, Shinya FUJITA, Yuji SAKAMOTO, Kazuya YOSHIDA
    Transactions of Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Science (JSASS) Aerospace Technology Japan, 16, 3, (2018), 202-209  PDF file
    DOI: 10.2322/tastj.16.202
  2. HPT: A High Spatial Resolution Multispectral Sensor for Microsatellite Remote Sensing,
    Junichi Kurihara, Yukihiro Takahashi, Yuji Sakamoto, Toshinori Kuwahara, and Kazuya Yoshida
    Sensors, 18, 619, (2018), 1-11  PDF file
    DOI: 10.3390/s18020619
  3. Design of a MEMS-Mirror-based Laser Pointing Control System of Optical Transponder for Micro-satellites
    Toshinori KUWAHARA, Shinya FUJITA, Yuji SATO, Shota SUZUKI, Lena OKAJIMA
    Transactions of Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Science (JSASS) Aerospace Technology Japan, 14, 3 (2018), 285-290  PDF file
    DOI: 10.2322/tastj.16.285
[2016]
  1. Development and Flight Results of Microsatellite Bus System for RISING-2
    Yuji SAKAMOTO, Nobuo SUGIMURA, Kazufumi FUKUDA, Toshinori KUWAHARA,Kazuya YOSHIDA, Junichi KURIHARA, Tetsuya FUKUHARA, Yukihiro TAKAHASHI
    Transactions of Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Science (JSASS) Aerospace Technology Japan, 14, ists30 (2016), Pf_89-Pf_96  PDF file
    DOI: 10.2322/tastj.14.Pf_89
  2. Improvement of Star Sensor in Generic Test Environment
    Nobuo SUGIMURA, Tatsuaki HASHIMOTO, Toshinori KUWAHARA, Yuji SAKAMOTO, Kazuya YOSHIDA, Yuji SATO, Tomohiro TAKANO
    Transactions of Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Science (JSASS) Aerospace Technology Japan, 14, ists30 (2016), Pf_97-Pf_103  PDF file
    DOI: 10.2322/tastj.14.Pf_97
  3. Design and Implementation of a Thermopile-Based Earth Sensor
    Toshinori KUWAHARA, Kazufumi FUKUDA, Nobuo SUGIMURA, Yuji SAKAMOTO, Kazuya YOSHIDA, Ariana DORSA, Pietro PAGANI, Franco Z. BERNELLI
    Transactions of Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Science (JSASS) Aerospace Technology Japan, 14, ists30 (2016), Pf_77-Pf_81  PDF file
    DOI: 10.2322/tastj.14.Pf_77
  4. Low-Cost Simulation and Verification Environment for Micro-Satellites
    Toshinori KUWAHARA, Kazufumi FUKUDA, Nobuo SUGIMURA, Tatsuaki HASHIMOTO, Yuji SAKAMOTO, Kazuya YOSHIDA
    Transactions of Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Science (JSASS) Aerospace Technology Japan, 14, ists30 (2016), Pf_83-Pf_88  PDF file
    DOI: 10.2322/tastj.14.Pf_83
  5. Structural Design of De-orbit Mechanism Demonstration CubeSat FREEDOM
    Toshiyuki MOGI, Toshinori KUWAHARA, Hiroki UTO
    Transactions of Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Science (JSASS) Aerospace Technology Japan, 14, ists30 (2016), Pf_61-Pf_68  PDF file
    DOI: 10.2322/tastj.14.Pf_61
[2014]
  1. TRITEL-JMS: A Three-Dimensional Silicon Detector Telescope Dedicated for Operation on Board Microsatellite RISESAT
    Toshinori KUWAHARA, Attila HIRN, Istvan APATHY, Laszlo BODNAR, Antal CSOKE, Sandor DEME, Tamas PAZMANDI, Peter SZANTO, Gabor TROZNAI, and Balas ZABORI
    Transactions of Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Science (JSASS) Aerospace Technology Japan, 12, ists29 (2014), Tr_13-Tr_17  PDF file
    DOI: 10.2322/tastj.12.Tr_13
  2. Timepix-Based Miniaturized Radiation Micro-Tracker for the Micro-Satellite RISESAT
    Carlos GRANJA, Michael PLATKEVIC, Daniel TURECEK, Vaclav KRAUS, Stanislav POSPISIL, Jan JAKUBEK, Michael HOLIK, Zdenek VYKYDAL, Ondrej VALACH, Ivan CAICEDO, and Toshinori KUWAHARA
    Transactions of Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Science (JSASS) Aerospace Technology Japan, 12, ists29 (2014), Tr_7-Tr_11  PDF file
    DOI: 10.2322/tastj.12.Tr_7
  3. Development and Evaluation of Small Size Whole Sky Observation Camera System for Micro-Satellite
    Kento OHYA, Shinichi KIMURA, Toshinori KUWAHARA
    Transactions of Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Science (JSASS) Aerospace Technology Japan, 12, ists29 (2014), Tf_27-Tf_31  PDF file
    DOI: 10.2322/tastj.12.Tf_27
  4. Establishment of the Ground Testing Environment for Verification and Integration of Micro-satellite
    Yoshihiro TOMIOKA, Kazufumi FUKUDA, Nobuo SUGIMURA, Yuji SAKAMOTO, Toshinori KUWAHARA, and Kazuya YOSHIDA
    Transactions of Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Science (JSASS) Aerospace Technology Japan, 12, ists29 (2014), Tf_33-Tf_38  PDF file
    DOI: 10.2322/tastj.12.Tf_33
[2012]
  1. The Evaluation Tests of the Attitude Control System of the 50-kg Micro Satellite RISING-2
    Kazufumi FUKUDA, Nobuo SUGIMURA, Yuji SAKAMOTO, Toshinori KUWAHARA, Kazuya YOSHIDA, Yukihiro TAKAHASHI
    Transactions of Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Science (JSASS) Aerospace Technology Japan, 10, ists28 (2012), Td_11-Td_16  PDF file
    DOI: 10.2322/tastj.10.Td_11
  2. System Integration of a Star Sensor for the Small Earth Observation Satellite RISING-2
    Toshinori KUWAHARA, Steve BATTAZZO, Yoshihiro TOMIOKA, Kazufumi FUKUDA, Yuji SAKAMOTO, Kazuya YOSHIDA
    Transactions of Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Science (JSASS) Aerospace TechnologyJapan, 10, ists28 (2012), Td_1-Td_6  PDF file
    DOI: 10.2322/tastj.10.Td_1
[2011]
  1. An integrated development framework for rapid development of platform-independent and reusable satellite on-board software
    Claas Ziemke, Toshinori Kuwahara, Ivan Kossev
    Acta Astronautica, 69, 7-8 (2011), 583-594  PDF file
    DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2011.04.011