BOTAN　Missions

Camera

BOTAN has a camera onboard.It will take pumice locations near the Okinawa Japan, aurora borealis, and South Dakota cornfields  . FOV of camera is 63 degrees.

Image data from the two types of cameras will be stored in flash memory.

The image data will be divided and transmitted to the ground station by UHF downlink, then received and restored at the ground station.

Downlinked images will be published on the website.

Gyro

The rotation and tilt of this satellite, BOTAN, is detected by a gyro sensor, and the rotation is visualized by the application.

APRS

At 145.825 MHz, sending APRS queries from the satellite to a specific amateur station with APRS capability, and store the responses.

response data is transmitted from the satellite to the ground station by UHF downlink.

The APRS response packets downlinked to the ground station will be published on this website.

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