[Via Satellite 05-11-2015] Kratos Defense & Security Solutions<\/b> has announced that an Epoch IPS ground system from Kratos Integral Systems International<\/b> (Kratos ISI) is providing command and control for two Japanese micro-satellites. The University of Tokyo<\/b> developed the Hodoyoshi 3 and Hodoyoshi 4 spacecraft as part of the FIRST program of the Cabinet Office of Japan<\/b>. Launched in June 2014, the satellites are now operational and transmitting Earth observation images.<\/p>\n
The Epoch IPS system was provided under the contract with Fujitsu Limited Japan<\/b> and Integral Systems Japan<\/b> to support development and testing of the micro-satellites at the University of Tokyo and provides command and control for them once in orbit.<\/p>\n
The Epoch T&C Server and the Epoch Client modules provide command and control for the satellites. The server provides complete off-the-shelf satellite telemetry and command processing for operations and test environments. The client provides complete operations capability for real-time monitoring and control of all satellite and ground equipment systems and functions.<\/p>\n
Hodoyoshi 3 has 40-meter and 200-meter GSD cameras and Hodoyoshi 4 has a 6-meter GSD camera to capture Earth remote sensing images. Hodoyoshi 4\u2019s first wide-angle camera image was successfully downlinked. Newly developed advanced components such as a high-speed X-band transmitter and an ion propulsion system will also be tested on Hodoyoshi 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[Via Satellite 05-11-2015] Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has announced that an Epoch IPS ground system from Kratos Integral Systems International (Kratos ISI) is providing command and control for two Japanese micro-satellites. The University of Tokyo developed the Hodoyoshi 3 and Hodoyoshi 4 spacecraft as part of the FIRST program of the Cabinet Office of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}