WE WISH (World Environmental Watching and Investigation from Space Height) was a small commercial
CubeSat which was deployed from the
International Space Station
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(ISS) in October 2012 and which
deorbited in March 2013. It was built by the Japanese technology company
Meisei Electric["WE WISH"]
Space.skyrocket.de Retrieved 12 January 2021 and the Meisei Amateur Radio Club, and could transmit pictures taken by a small
infrared camera
Infrared (IR), sometimes called infrared light, is electromagnetic radiation (EMR) with wavelengths longer than those of visible light. It is therefore invisible to the human eye. IR is generally understood to encompass wavelengths from around ...
via radio at 437.515
MHz
The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI), equivalent to one event (or cycle) per second. The hertz is an SI derived unit whose expression in terms of SI base units is s−1, meaning that one he ...
.
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Amsat-uk.org Retrieved 13 January 2021 WE WISH travelled to orbit aboard
Kounotori 3 (HTV-3) on 21 July 2012, along with other CubeSats including
RAIKO
RAIKO ( ja, 雷鼓, literally ''thunder drum'') is a Japanese satellite which was built and operated by Tohoku University, Tohoku and Wakayama University, Wakayama Universities. A two-unit CubeSat, RAIKO was deployed from the International Spa ...
,
FITSAT-1,
F-1, and
TechEdSat-1.
[
It was deployed, along with the other CubeSats, from Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) '' Kibō'' via the Japanese Experiment Module-Small Satellite Orbital Deployer (J-SSOD) system on 4 October 2012.][ ]
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Spacecraft which reentered in 2013
CubeSats
Spacecraft launched in 2012
Satellites deployed from the International Space Station
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