The Space-technology Demonstration Research Center of JAXA has been started programof Small Demonstration Satellite(SDS) series. These provide a useful platform for on-orbit demonstration for newly developed components of large satellites and for advanced space-mission technology SDS-1 is the first one of them. We have started to develop the small demonstration satellite-1 since 2006. The paper describes development result of SDS-1, which has beenlaunched in January 2009, and its operation result will be introduced.
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