Bird B (BRAC Onnesha), Bird G (ANUSAT 1), Bird J (Toki), Bird M (Mazaalai, NUMSAT 1), Bird N (EduSat 1)

Launch data: Type  Bird B (Japan)  Bird G (Bangladesh)  Bird J (Ghana)  Bird M (Mongolia)  Bird N (Nigeria) Name  BRAC ONNESHA  ANUSAT 1 (GhanaSat-1)  Toki  Mazaalai  EduSat-1 NORAD ID  42823  42821  42820  42822  42824 Designation  98067MX  98067MV  98067MU  98067 MW  98067MY Launch date  03 June 2017 Launch site  CCK, LC-39A Launch vehicle  Falcon-9 v1.2 Mission  Technology Launch platform  ISS Kibo, LEO Deployment date  07 Jul-09:10 UT  07 Jul-08:50 UT  07 Jul-08:50 UT  07 Jul-08:50 UT  07 Jul-09:10 UT Earth orbit: Perigee / Apogee  399 x 405 km Eccentricity   Inclination   51.6° Period   min Decay date  06 May 2019 (.7)  22 May 2019  03 May 2019 (.2)  11 May 2019 (.7)  13 May 2019 (.2)

Spacecraft data:

Description:

• Bird are a small technological CubeSat (1U) built by Kyushu Institute of Technology (KIT) as the Joint Global Multi-Nation Birds Satellite project, which is a cross-border interdisciplinary satellite project for non-space faring countries supported by Japan.
• The Joint Global Multi-Nation Birds Satellite project. acronym as “Birds project.” is a cross-border interdisciplinary satellite project. for non-space faring countries supported by Japan (participating countries are; Ghana, Mongolia, Nigeria and Bangladesh) During this 2 years project., students shall design, develop and operate 5units of identical 1U CubeSats (1kg, 10cm cubic) belonging to the five participating countries and operated from 7 ground stations (operation is done at 7 ground stations; the 5 participating countries including Thailand and Taiwan) to form first time in the world a constellation of 5 CubeSats operated in 7 networked ground stations. 15 students from 6 of the 7 participating countries who belong to Graduate school of Engineering of the Kyushu Institute of Technology and enrolled as a Master or Doctoral degree students in Space Engineering International Course are executing this project. with the support of 4 faculty members. This project. hopes to provide great leverage to students from developing nations for hands on satellite project.
• The BIRDS constellation will consist of four 1U CubeSats (BIRD-B, BIRD-J, BIRD-G and BIRD-M) that are made of the exactly same design including the radio frequencies to be used and launched together. The main mission of the constellation including is to do experiment on radio communication with a CubeSat constellation via a network of UHF/VHF amateur radio ground stations all over the world. The challenge is to distinguish each satellite from the four satellites transmitting with the same frequency, hand over operation of a satellite from one ground station to another and assemble the satellite data, such as housekeeping telemetry, music and the Earth images, obtained at different ground stations. Amateur radio people are asked to join the network to assist in the data downlink and reconstruction of the patchy satellite data into one meaningful data. Orbit information and operational plan of each satellite will be made available to the amateur radio community in the world. Software to decode the satellite data will be also made available. The respective amateur ground stations that can successfully decode the telemetry data, music and the Earth images, shall receive QSL CARD from BIRDS team. The data reconstructed by the effort of the amateur ground station network will be made public to share the sense of satisfaction and achievement. A particularly interesting mission of BIRDS project is SNG mission that exchange music via digi-singer. It is an outreach-oriented mission. First, music in MIDI format is uploaded from ground. Then the MIDI file is processed on-board using a vocal synthesizer. Finally, the processed music is sent back to Earth using UHF antenna as voice FM data. During organized events on space utilization with schools or general public, music could be heard using a common hand-held receiver and hand-made Yagi antenna positioned to track the satellite at each given pass over the region. This has a tremendous effect on awareness of radio communication among school children and general public, especially in the countries participating in the BIRDS project, Japan, Ghana, Mongolia, Nigeria and Bangladesh. Proposing to use CW, 1k2 AFSK FM, audio FM and 9k6 GMSK downlinks.

External links:

• Official website for: BIRDS project