著者

Marco GOMEZ-JENKINS Julio CALVO-ALVARADO Adolfo CHAVES-JIMÉNEZ Johan CARVAJAL-GODÍNEZ Esteban MARTINEZ Yeiner ARIAS Ana Julieta CALVO-OBANDO Vladimir JIMENEZ Juan José ROJAS Alfredo VALVERDE-SALAZAR Julio RAMIREZ-MOLINA

出版者

THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES

雑誌

TRANSACTIONS OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES (ISSN:05493811)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.66, no.6, pp.217-225, 2023 (Released:2023-11-04)

参考文献数

19

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Project Irazú was an innovative space mission that aimed to propel the advancement of the aerospace sector in Costa Rica, by developing a ground to space communication solution for daily monitoring of carbon fixation in forests and tree plantations. Irazú is Central America’s first satellite mission and is a joint endeavor between the Central American Association of Aeronautics and Space and the Costa Rica Institute of Technology, along with national and international partners. The 1U CubeSat developed in this project was deployed from the International Space Station on May 2018, commencing straightaway operations. The scientific mission demonstrated a practical novel solution to monitor daily tree growth by using wireless electronic sensors and a store and forward satellite link. This article presents an overview of the project, along with the mission architecture, summary of the Assembly, Integration and Testing (AI&T) and operations phases, and results from the scientific mission, including the sensor’s performance and measurements of the daily estimated tree diameter during six months. The impacts that the project had on an emerging space nation such as Costa Rica is included as well.