BIRDS-4 Project

BIRDS-4 Flight model inside clean room of Kyushu Insitute of Technology

Image Credit: Mark Angelo Purio

jsc2020e049619 (2/4/2020) --- A preflight view of the three BIRDS-4 Flight units inside clean room of Kyushu Insitute of Technology. The Joint Global Multi Nation Birds or BIRDS-4 Project is a constellation of three 1U CubeSats developed by Japan, Philippines and Paraguay, with Paraguay launching their first satellite. The mission of the BIRDS-4 satellites is to test commercial off-the-shelf components, as well as new technologies in space. Image Credit: Mark Angelo Purio