<div dir="ltr"><h1>Japanese asteroid mission to carry Amateur Radio</h1><p> A Japanese news report says the asteroid mission Hayabusa 2, planned to launch in December 2014 on a H-IIA rocket, will also carry the amateur<br>
radio satellite Abyss 2 (<strong>Shin’en 2</strong>) <br><br> Shin’en 2 is a polyhedron measuring 490×490×475 mm and weighing 17 kg. It was built by students at Kyushu Institute of Technology and carries a Mode J linear transponder for amateur radio communications along with CW and WSJT beacons.<br>
<br> Shin’en 2 will have an elliptic orbit around the Sun and travel to a deep space orbit between Venus and Mars. Its inclination will be almost zero, which means Shin-En2 will stay in the Earth’s equatorial plane. The distance from the Sun will be between 0.7 and 1.3 AU. An Astronomical Unit (AU) is 149,597,871 km.<br>
<br> Shin’en 2 IARU coordinated frequencies:<br>• 437.505 MHz CW beacon<br>• 437.385 MHz WSJT telemetry<br>• Inverting SSB/CW transponder<br>– 145.940-145.960 MHz uplink LSB<br>– 435.280-435.260 MHz downlink USB<br>
<br> Another amateur radio satellite ARTSAT2:DESPATCH is also on the same launch.<br><br> Read the Japanese language article (try Chrome translator) at<br><a href="http://www.nishinippon.co.jp/nnp/f_kitakyushu_keichiku/article/111554" target="_blank">http://www.nishinippon.co.jp/nnp/f_kitakyushu_keichiku/article/111554</a><br>
<br> Shin’en2 project website<br><a href="http://kit-okuyama-lab.com/en/sinen2/sinen2-outline/" target="_blank">http://kit-okuyama-lab.com/en/sinen2/sinen2-outline/</a><br><br> ARTSAT2:DESPATCH<br><a href="http://amsat-uk.org/2013/11/03/art-and-ham-radio-in-deep-space/" target="_blank">http://amsat-uk.org/2013/11/03/art-and-ham-radio-in-deep-space/</a><br>
<br> Hayabusa 2<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa_2" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa_2</a></p></div>