Objectives and Applications
WEOS (Kanta-kun, in Japanese) is a data collection satellite, a low-cost mission designed, built and operated by students of the Chiba Institute of Technology (advisor and PI: Tomonao Hayashi), Chiba, Japan. The overall objective of WEOS is to collect signals sent from probes attached to whales in the oceanic region of Japan to study the behavior of whales (tracking of whale migration routes in the Pacific Ocean). The objectives in the total design of the system included:
Full Name
Whale Ecology Observation Satellite
Mission Status
Mission complete
Mission Agencies
Chiba Institute of Technology
, JAXA
Launch Date
14 Dec 2002
Mission Links
EOL Date
14 Dec 2007
Orbit Type
Sun-synchronous
Orbit Period
101 minutes
Orbit Sense
Orbit Inclination
98.6 deg
Orbit Altitude
793 km
Orbit Longitude
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