Kagawa University

Kagawa University (香川大学, Kagawa Daigaku) is a national university in Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan. The university was established in 1949 as a national university after the consolidation and reorganization of the Kagawa Normal School, the Kagawa Normal School for Youth and the Takamatsu College of Economics (formerly the Takamatsu Higher School of Commerce).[2]

Kagawa University
香川大学
TypePublic (National)
EstablishedFounded 1874
Chartered 1949
PresidentYoshiyuki Kakehi
(ja:筧善行)
Students6,530[1]
Undergraduates5,713
Postgraduates817
Location
Takamatsu
,
Kagawa
,
Japan

34°20′34.7″N 134°2′15.5″E
CampusUrban
ColorsYellow-Green  
MascotNone
Websitekagawa-u.ac.jp

Faculties

Faculty of Agriculture
Faculty of Economics
Faculty of Education
Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Law
Faculty of Medicine

Graduate Schools

Graduate School of Agriculture
Graduate School of Economics
Graduate School of Education
Graduate School of Engineering
Graduate School of Law
Graduate School of Management
Graduate School of Medicine
Kagawa-Ehime Universities' Graduate School of Law
United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences

Cubesat Experiments

STARS spacecraft

The Space Tethered Autonomous Robotic Satellite (STARS, aka STARS-1, aka KUKAI, COSPAR 2009-002G, SATCAT 33498[3]) robotic spacecraft developed by the Kagawa Satellite Development Project in the Kagawa University consisted of mother and daughter satellites connected by a tether.[4] The main mission was: separate the mother and daughter satellites deploying the tether between them in the process, document the deployment of the tether using an onboard camera and demonstrate that the daughter satellite can perform attitude control using the tether and a robotic arm. The satellite also had amateur radio capabilities.[3]

STARS was launched 23 January 2009 as a secondary payload aboard H-IIA flight 15, which also launched GOSAT.[5] It successfully separated from the rocket, but the tether failed to deploy "due to the launch lock trouble of the tether reel mechanism."[6] As of June 2022, the satellite is still in orbit.[3]

STARS-II

A follow-on Space Tethered Autonomous Robotic Satellite II, STARS-II,[7] launched on 27 February 2014 as a secondary payload aboard an H-2A rocket. The experiment was only partially successful, and tether deployment could not be confirmed.[8]

References
  1. "香川大学・学生数の定員及び現員". Archived from the original on 2008-11-05. Retrieved 2010-11-15.
  2. "香川大学： English ： Outline of Kagawa University ： Outline of Kagawa University2009". Archived from the original on 2009-08-29. Retrieved 2009-04-23.
  3. "STARS (KUKAI)". N2YO.com. 15 June 2022. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
  4. "Kagawa satellite development project STARS". Kagawa University. Archived from the original on 2009-02-01.
  5. "H-IIA F15 Launch Sequence". JAXA.
  6. Kagawa satellite development project STARS (English) Archived 2014-03-27 at the Wayback Machine (accessed 16 February 2012)
  7. Herbert J. Kramer , STARS-II, eoPortal (accessed 7 July 2016)
  8. M. Nohmi, "Initial Orbital Performance Result of Nano-Satellite STARS-II", International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (I-SAIRAS), Montreal, Canada, June 17–19, 2014(accessed 7 July 2016)


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