Lessons Learned from Structural Design and Vibration Testing of 50-kg Microsatellites Deployed from the International Space Station.

Toshinori Kuwahara Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3629-5173

Yuji Sakamoto Junichi Kurihara Shinya Fujita 0002 Yuji Sato Toshinori Kuwahara Lessons Learned from Structural Design and Vibration Testing of 50-kg Microsatellites Deployed from the International Space Station. 2026 January abs/2601.12840 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2601.12840 db/journals/corr/corr2601.html#abs-2601-12840 streams/journals/corr

Ayumi Umemura Toshinori Kuwahara Marc Pollefeys Daniel Barath Z-FLoc: Zero-Shot Floorplan Localization via Geometric Primitives. 2026 June abs/2606.04788 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.04788 db/journals/corr/corr2606.html#abs-2606-04788 streams/journals/corr

Saki Komachi Shinya Fujita 0002 Kohei Takeda Hayate Nakaoka Toshinori Kuwahara Kazuya Yoshida Junichiro Kawaguchi Safe Attitude and Orbit Control for ISS-Deployed CubeSat HOKUSHIN-1 with Cold-Gas Propulsion System. 1445-1451 2024 SII https://doi.org/10.1109/SII58957.2024.10417713 conf/sii/2024 db/conf/sii/sii2024.html#KomachiFTNKYK24 Hayate Nakaoka Shinya Fujita 0002 Ryo Ishimaru Toshinori Kuwahara High Accuracy Pointing Control Using a MEMS Mirror for a Micro Space Telescope. 1554-1560 2024 SII https://doi.org/10.1109/SII58957.2024.10417284 conf/sii/2024 db/conf/sii/sii2024.html#NakaokaFIK24

Supakit Wattanarungsan Toshinori Kuwahara Shinya Fujita 0002 Magnetometer-Based Attitude Determination Extended Kalman Filter and Optimization Techniques. 7993-8004 2023 December 59 IEEE Trans. Aerosp. Electron. Syst. 6 https://doi.org/10.1109/TAES.2023.3299897 db/journals/taes/taes59.html#WattanarungsanKF23

Kazuki Kibune Shinya Fujita 0002 Yoshihiko Shibuya Toshinori Kuwahara Hiromune Ishii Pasith Tangdhanakanond Attitude and Orbit Control Strategy with 10N Thruster for ALE-3. 1-6 2023 SII https://doi.org/10.1109/SII55687.2023.10039171 conf/sii/2023 db/conf/sii/sii2023.html#KibuneFSKIT23 Kodai Nakazawa Kohei Takeda Saki Komachi Shinya Fujita 0002 Toshinori Kuwahara Constructing Earth-Moon Data Relay System: Trajectory Design of Ballistic Lunar Transfer for Nano Spacecraft. 1-6 2023 SII https://doi.org/10.1109/SII55687.2023.10039237 conf/sii/2023 db/conf/sii/sii2023.html#NakazawaTKFK23 Shinya Fujita 0002 Ryo Ishimaru Yuji Sakamoto Keisuke Maeda Osamu Okudaira Yuji Sato Toshinori Kuwahara Takafumi Matsui Development of Spin Stabilization Control System for the Cosmic Dust Observation CubeSat. 114-119 2022 SII https://doi.org/10.1109/SII52469.2022.9708909 conf/sii/2022 db/conf/sii/sii2022.html#FujitaISMOSKM22 Shinya Fujita 0002 Yuji Sato Toshinori Kuwahara Yuji Sakamoto Junichi Kurihara On-orbit Calibration of a Telescope Alignment for Earth Observation using Stars and QUEST. 120-125 2022 SII https://doi.org/10.1109/SII52469.2022.9708740 conf/sii/2022 db/conf/sii/sii2022.html#FujitaSKSK22 Shinya Fujita 0002 Toshinori Kuwahara Kazuki Kibune Naoya Shiraishi Yuji Sato Yuji Sakamoto Junichi Kurihara Lessons Learned from On-orbit Gyroscope Malfunction and Recovery Operation of Microsatellite RISESAT. 126-131 2022 SII https://doi.org/10.1109/SII52469.2022.9708894 conf/sii/2022 db/conf/sii/sii2022.html#FujitaKKSSSK22 Naoya Shiraishi Yuji Sato Yoshihiko Shibuya Shinya Fujita 0002 Toshinori Kuwahara Daisuke Suzuki Attitude Control System Design of 3U CubeSat with Electrodynamic Tether for Post Mission Disposal Demonstration. 132-137 2022 SII https://doi.org/10.1109/SII52469.2022.9708853 conf/sii/2022 db/conf/sii/sii2022.html#ShiraishiSSFKS22 Alperen Pala Toshinori Kuwahara Kohei Takeda Yoshihiko Shibuya Yuji Sato Shinya Fujita 0002 Daisuke Suzuki Tetsuya Kaneko Orbital Maneuver Evaluation of Micro-satellite ALE-1 with a Separable Drag Sail. 877-881 2022 SII https://doi.org/10.1109/SII52469.2022.9708783 conf/sii/2022 db/conf/sii/sii2022.html#PalaKTSSFSK22 Toshinori Kuwahara Alperen Pala Adrien Potier Yoshihiko Shibuya Yuji Sato Shinya Fujita 0002 Daisuke Suzuki Tetsuya Kaneko Orbital Demonstration of Gossamer Structure Shape Estimation using Time-of-Flight Camera System. 882-886 2022 SII https://doi.org/10.1109/SII52469.2022.9708770 conf/sii/2022 db/conf/sii/sii2022.html#KuwaharaPPSSFSK22

Masataka Imai Junichi Kurihara Toru Kouyama Toshinori Kuwahara Shinya Fujita 0002 Yuji Sakamoto Yuji Sato Sei-Ichi Saitoh Takafumi Hirata Hirokazu Yamamoto Yukihiro Takahashi Radiometric Calibration for a Multispectral Sensor Onboard RISESAT Microsatellite Based on Lunar Observations. 2429 2021 21 Sensors 7 https://doi.org/10.3390/s21072429 db/journals/sensors/sensors21.html#ImaiKKKFSSSHYT21

Masataka Imai Junichi Kurihara Toru Kouyama Toshinori Kuwahara Shinya Fujita 0002 Yuji Sakamoto Sei-Ichi Saitoh Takafumi Hirata Hirokazu Yamamoto Yuji Sato Yukihiro Takahashi Lunar Calibration and its Validation for a Multispectral Sensor Onboard Risesat Microsatellite. 7775-7778 2021 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9555066 conf/igarss/2021 db/conf/igarss/igarss2021.html#ImaiKKK0SSHYST21 Yoshihiko Shibuya Yuji Sato Hannah Tomio Toshinori Kuwahara Shinya Fujita 0002 Koh Kamachi Hayato Watanabe Development and Demonstration of the Mission Control System for Artificial Meteor Generating Micro-satellites. 531-536 2021 SII https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEECONF49454.2021.9382604 conf/sii/2021 db/conf/sii/sii2021.html#ShibuyaSTK0KW21 Naoya Shiraishi Kazuki Kibune Shinya Fujita 0002 Yoshihiko Shibuya Yuji Sato Toshinori Kuwahara Junichi Kurihara Automated Mission Planning System for Ocean Observation of Micro-satellite RISESAT. 656-661 2021 SII https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEECONF49454.2021.9382717 conf/sii/2021 db/conf/sii/sii2021.html#ShiraishiKFSSKK21 Yuji Sato Shinya Fujita 0002 Toshinori Kuwahara Yoshihiko Shibuya Koh Kamachi Design, Implementation and In-orbit Demonstration of Attitude and Orbit Control System for Micro-satellite ALE-2. 662-668 2021 SII https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEECONF49454.2021.9382731 conf/sii/2021 db/conf/sii/sii2021.html#SatoFKSK21

Tetsuya Fukuhara Yuji Sakamoto Toshinori Kuwahara Nobuo Sugimura Kazuya Yoshida Yukihiro Takahashi Commercial Uncooled Microbolometer Camera Applied to 50-kg Class Satellite. 332-336 2020 17 IEEE Geosci. Remote. Sens. Lett. 2 https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2019.2918197 db/journals/lgrs/lgrs17.html#FukuharaSKSYT20

Masataka Imai Toru Kouyama Junichi Kurihara Toshinori Kuwahara Shinya Fujita 0002 Yuji Sakamoto Sei-Ichi Saitoh Takafumi Hirata Yukihiro Takahashi Inflight Radiometric Calibration for a Multi-Band Sensor Onboard Risesat with the Moon. 6222-6225 2020 IGARSS https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323468 conf/igarss/2020 db/conf/igarss/igarss2020.html#ImaiKKK0SSHT20 Yuji Sato Shinya Fujita 0002 Toshinori Kuwahara Yoshihiko Shibuya Koh Kamachi Junichiro Kawaguchi Yuki Kubo Yuichiro Nada Kaoru Ohashi Design and Evaluation of Thruster Control Approach for Micro-satellite ALE-2. 477-482 2020 SII https://doi.org/10.1109/SII46433.2020.9026234 conf/sii/2020 db/conf/sii/sii2020.html#Sato0KSKKKNO20 Yu Murata Yuji Sato Morokot Sakal Toshinori Kuwahara Shinya Fujita 0002 Yuko Kawasoe Ryu Shinohara Taku Izumiyama Ground Evaluation of the Attitude Control System of 3U-CubeSat IHI-SAT. 771-776 2020 SII https://doi.org/10.1109/SII46433.2020.9025825 conf/sii/2020 db/conf/sii/sii2020.html#MurataSSK0KSI20 Shinya Fujita 0002 Yuji Sato Toshinori Kuwahara Yuji Sakamoto Kazuya Yoshida Attitude Maneuvering Sequence Design of High-Precision Ground Target Tracking Control for Multispectral Earth Observations. 153-158 2019 SII https://doi.org/10.1109/SII.2019.8700434 conf/sii/2019 db/conf/sii/sii2019.html#FujitaSKSY19

Junichi Kurihara Yukihiro Takahashi Yuji Sakamoto Toshinori Kuwahara Kazuya Yoshida HPT: A High Spatial Resolution Multispectral Sensor for Microsatellite Remote Sensing. 619 2018 18 Sensors 2 https://doi.org/10.3390/s18020619 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q49804106 db/journals/sensors/sensors18.html#KuriharaTSKY18

Shinya Fujita 0002 Yuji Sato Toshinori Kuwahara Hiroto Katagiri Yuji Sakamoto Kazuya Yoshida Hiroo Kunimori Development and ground evaluation of optical ground station tracking control system of microsatellite RISESAT. 201-207 2017 SII https://doi.org/10.1109/SII.2017.8279212 conf/sii/2017 db/conf/sii/sii2017.html#FujitaSKKSYK17 Yuji Sato Shinya Fujita 0002 Toshinori Kuwahara Hiroto Katagiri Yuji Sakamoto Kazuya Yoshida Improvement and verification of satellite dynamics simulator based on flight data analysis. 686-691 2017 SII https://doi.org/10.1109/SII.2017.8279301 conf/sii/2017 db/conf/sii/sii2017.html#SatoFKKSY17 Nobuo Sugimura Kazufumi Fukuda Yoshihiro Tomioka Masato Fukuyama Yuji Sakamoto Toshinori Kuwahara Tetuya Fukuhara Kazuya Yoshida Yukihiro Takahashi Ground test of attitude control system for micro satellite RISING-2. 301-306 2012 SII https://doi.org/10.1109/SII.2012.6427322 conf/sii/2012 db/conf/sii/sii2012.html#SugimuraFTFSKFY12 Toshinori Kuwahara Yoshihiro Tomioka Kazufumi Fukuda Nobuo Sugimura Yuji Sakamoto Radiation effect mitigation methods for electronic systems. 307-312 2012 SII https://doi.org/10.1109/SII.2012.6427324 conf/sii/2012 db/conf/sii/sii2012.html#KuwaharaTFSS12 Toshihiko Nakano Yasuhiro Shoji Mutsumi Yamamoto Ko Hamamoto Jumpei Nakamoto Masataka Imai Yuji Sakamoto Toshinori Kuwahara Makoto Watanabe Yukihiro Takahashi Kazuya Yoshida Makoto Taguchi The pointing control method of balloon-borne telescope compensating the motion of flexible base. 313-318 2012 SII https://doi.org/10.1109/SII.2012.6427318 conf/sii/2012 db/conf/sii/sii2012.html#NakanoSYHNISKWT12 Yoshihiro Tomioka Kazuya Yoshida Yuji Sakamoto Toshinori Kuwahara Kazufumi Fukuda Nobuo Sugimura Lessons learned on structural design of 50kg micro-satellites based on three real-life micro-satellite projects. 319-324 2012 SII https://doi.org/10.1109/SII.2012.6427314 conf/sii/2012 db/conf/sii/sii2012.html#TomiokaYSKFS12 Toshinori Kuwahara Kazuya Yoshida Yuji Sakamoto Yoshihiro Tomioka Kazufumi Fukuda Masato Fukuyama Nobuo Sugimura Hiroo Kunimori Hideki Takenaka Morio Toyoshima Tetsuharu Fuse Toshihiro Kubooka Satellite-to-ground optical communication system on Low Earth Orbit micro-satellite RISESAT. 939-944 2012 SII https://doi.org/10.1109/SII.2012.6427336 conf/sii/2012 db/conf/sii/sii2012.html#KuwaharaYSTFFSK12 Daniel Barath Shinya Fujita 0002 Kazufumi Fukuda Tetsuya Fukuhara Tetuya Fukuhara Masato Fukuyama Tetsuharu Fuse Ko Hamamoto Takafumi Hirata Masataka Imai Hiromune Ishii Ryo Ishimaru Taku Izumiyama Koh Kamachi Tetsuya Kaneko Hiroto Katagiri Junichiro Kawaguchi Yuko Kawasoe Kazuki Kibune Saki Komachi Toru Kouyama Yuki Kubo Toshihiro Kubooka Hiroo Kunimori Junichi Kurihara Keisuke Maeda Takafumi Matsui Yu Murata Yuichiro Nada Jumpei Nakamoto Toshihiko Nakano Hayate Nakaoka Kodai Nakazawa Kaoru Ohashi Osamu Okudaira Alperen Pala Marc Pollefeys Adrien Potier Sei-Ichi Saitoh Morokot Sakal Yuji Sakamoto Yuji Sato Yoshihiko Shibuya Ryu Shinohara Naoya Shiraishi Yasuhiro Shoji Nobuo Sugimura Daisuke Suzuki Makoto Taguchi Yukihiro Takahashi Kohei Takeda Hideki Takenaka Pasith Tangdhanakanond Hannah Tomio Yoshihiro Tomioka Morio Toyoshima Ayumi Umemura Hayato Watanabe Makoto Watanabe Supakit Wattanarungsan Hirokazu Yamamoto Mutsumi Yamamoto Kazuya Yoshida