Quote from: jcm on 03/08/2024 10:45 pmQuote from: Galactic Penguin SST on 01/26/2024 07:52 amPayload is indeed (as speculated earlier in the other thread) a prototype "quick response" satellite for the Japanese government Cabinet Satellite Intelligence Center, who also operates the IGS series: https://www.cas.go.jp/jp/houdou/pdf/241026sate.pdfAny guess who built the payload? MELCO like the IGS sats?According to a document summarizing the contract for the “short-term launch small satellite system,”Satellite system is AES Corporationhttp://www.aes.co.jp/The ground system is Skyperfect JSAT.https://orbitseals.blogspot.com/2020/08/1japan-csice-satellite-rocket.html"Short-term launch small satellite system" is also mentioned in the Cabinet Office Space Policy Committee materials, and before the official announcement, Grid estimated on OSINT that it would be launched on KAIROS LV.
Quote from: Galactic Penguin SST on 01/26/2024 07:52 amPayload is indeed (as speculated earlier in the other thread) a prototype "quick response" satellite for the Japanese government Cabinet Satellite Intelligence Center, who also operates the IGS series: https://www.cas.go.jp/jp/houdou/pdf/241026sate.pdfAny guess who built the payload? MELCO like the IGS sats?
Payload is indeed (as speculated earlier in the other thread) a prototype "quick response" satellite for the Japanese government Cabinet Satellite Intelligence Center, who also operates the IGS series: https://www.cas.go.jp/jp/houdou/pdf/241026sate.pdf
