CIT-GARDENsChiba Institute of Technology CubeSat Program

Gallery

482 photos of the satellites, development and members

Deployment

Satellites

16 photos

Flight models of each satellite

  • YOMOGI, KASHIWA and SAKURA
  • The three satellites side by side / November 2023
  • YOMOGI
  • KASHIWA
  • KASHIWA flight model / studio photo
  • The three KASHIWA models side by side
  • SAKURA
  • Camera face of SAKURA
  • BOTAN
  • BOTAN flight model / studio photo
  • BOTAN with panels opened
  • MOMIJI

Photos from orbit

2024-04 – 2026-02379 photos

379 / 379 images

Development

32 photos

Assembly, testing, handover and deployment

  • Group photo in front of the H-II rocket at Tsukuba Space Center
  • Group photo at the BOTAN deployment
  • Public viewing of the BOTAN deployment
  • Members celebrating the BOTAN deployment
  • Live stream of the BOTAN deployment
  • Group photo in front of the H-II rocket at Tsukuba Space Center / April 2024
  • Screen at the KASHIWA deployment public viewing
  • Assembling the YOMOGI EM / March 2022
  • Assembling the YOMOGI EM
  • Assembling the YOMOGI EM
  • Assembling the YOMOGI EM
  • YOMOGI EM vibration test / 15 March 2022

Members

13 photos

Members of each cohort

  • 1st cohort / July 2021
  • Group photo of the 1st cohort
  • Group photo of the members
  • Group photo of the 5th cohort
  • 5th cohort with the satellite posters
  • Members wearing the GARDENs jackets
  • Exhibit at the open campus
  • Door sign of the program
  • Group photo of the 1st cohort YOMOGI team
  • Group photo of the 2nd cohort KASHIWA team
  • Group photo of the 3rd cohort SAKURA team
  • Group photo of the 4th cohort BOTAN team

Illustrations

42 photoscredit: Niwa Circle

Characters of each satellite and announcement posters

  • Full illustration of Botan-tan holding BOTAN
  • Full illustration of Yomogi-tan holding YOMOGI
  • Full illustration of Sakura-tan holding SAKURA
  • Full illustration of Kashiwa-tan
  • Botan-tan winking
  • READY FOR LAUNCH 04 poster
  • BOTAN launch countdown illustration
  • Kashiwa-tan flying through space
  • Yomogi-tan being deployed from the ISS
  • Yomogi-tan looking at Earth from an ISS window
  • Christmas illustration of the four sisters
  • Sakura-tan poster illustration

Illustrations: Niwa Circle / Photos: GARDENs / Satellite images: received and recovered at the GARDENs ground station