Abstract
Recently, a field of nano-satellite has become one of the important streams in the space technology. Many nano-satellites are going to be launched from the latter half of 2012, however, it seems that there are unfortunately few satellite earth stations with enough ability which the nano-satellites can use for high speed communication. Therefore, a satellite earth station which enables the high speed communication is now strongly needed not only for the nano-satellites going to be launched shortly but also for the future of nano-satellite field. So, we have planned to use an earth satellite station with 10.26 m dish antenna in Fukui University of Technology for the high speed communication of nano-satellites based on the collaboration with satellite manufacture organizations which belong to UNISEC. In this paper, we describe the performance of our earth satellite station and the operating plan for 8 nano-satellites which will be launched from the latter half of this year to 2014.
