Sondrak's Gulch regularly posts about upcoming rocket launches. Today's post mentions
StriX. Never heard of it so I go looking. It's a relatively small Japanese satellite. The central box measures about a yard on each side. Looks like it is going to in a LEO (low earth orbit), about one hundred miles up. It's going to be looking at the Earth.
Found this impressive block of bureaucratic psychobabble on the
Synspective website:
StriX is a small, innovative, and low-cost Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite that was jointly developed by Synspective, the University of Tokyo, the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The technology originated from the Impulsing Paradigm Change through Disruptive Technologies (ImPACT) Program, a Japanese government-led R&D initiative.
Previous post about Synthetic Aperture Radar.
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