Kagawa University
香川大学 | |
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| Type | Public (National) |
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| Established | Founded 1874 Chartered 1949 |
| President | Yoshiyuki Kakehi (ja:筧善行) |
| Students | 6,530[1] |
| Undergraduates | 5,713 |
| Postgraduates | 817 |
| Location | , , 34°20′34.7″N 134°2′15.5″E / 34.342972°N 134.037639°E |
| Campus | Urban |
| Colors | Yellow-Green |
| Mascot | None |
| Website | kagawa-u.ac.jp |
Kagawa University (香川大学, Kagawa Daigaku) is a national university in Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan. Kagawa university has its roots in a vocational school founded in 1874. The university was established in 1949 as a national university after the consolidation and reorganization of the Kagawa Normal School, the Kagawa Normal School for Youth and the Takamatsu College of Economics (formerly the Takamatsu Higher School of Commerce).[2] The Faculty of Economics is the oldest public specialized school in the Shikoku region. The business school is highly regarded for its location in Takamatsu, where the main national government offices governing the four Shikoku prefectures and the branches of listed companies are concentrated. The Faculty of Agriculture conducts research into rare sugar. In cooperation with the Kagawa Prefecture, the university supports the Setouchi Triennale in both academic and cultural aspects.
Faculties
[edit]Faculty of Agriculture [1]
Faculty of Economics [2]
Faculty of Education [3]
Faculty of Engineering and Design [4]
Faculty of Law [5]
Faculty of Medicine [6][permanent dead link]
Graduate Schools
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Graduate School of Agriculture
Graduate School of Economics
Graduate School of Education
Graduate School of Engineering
Graduate School of Law
Graduate School of Management
Graduate School of Medicine
Graduate School of Science for Creative Emergence
United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Ehime University
Cubesat Experiments
[edit]STARS spacecraft
[edit]The Space Tethered Autonomous Robotic Satellite (STARS, aka STARS-1, aka KUKAI, COSPAR 2009-002G, SATCAT 33498[3]) robotic spacecraft developed by the Kagawa Satellite Development Project in the Kagawa University consisted of mother and daughter satellites connected by a tether.[4] The main mission was: separate the mother and daughter satellites deploying the tether between them in the process, document the deployment of the tether using an onboard camera and demonstrate that the daughter satellite can perform attitude control using the tether and a robotic arm. The satellite also had amateur radio capabilities.[3]
STARS was launched 23 January 2009 as a secondary payload aboard H-IIA flight 15, which also launched GOSAT.[5] It successfully separated from the rocket, but the tether failed to deploy "due to the launch lock trouble of the tether reel mechanism."[6] As of June 2022, the satellite is still in orbit.[3]
STARS-II
[edit]A follow-on Space Tethered Autonomous Robotic Satellite II, STARS-II,[7] launched on 27 February 2014 as a secondary payload aboard an H-2A rocket. The experiment was only partially successful, and tether deployment could not be confirmed.[8]
Notable alumni
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- Masayoshi Ōhira : Former Prime Minister of Japan
- Chuzo Mikami : Former Minister of Finance, Minister of Education
- Haruki Shiraishi : Former Governor of Ehime Prefecture
- Yoshinori Ohkoso : Founder of Nippon Meat Packers
References
[edit]- ^ "香川大学・学生数の定員及び現員". Archived from the original on 2008-11-05. Retrieved 2010-11-15.
- ^ "香川大学： English ： Outline of Kagawa University ： Outline of Kagawa University2009". Archived from the original on 2009-08-29. Retrieved 2009-04-23.
- ^ a b c "STARS (KUKAI)". N2YO.com. 15 June 2022. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
- ^ "Kagawa satellite development project STARS". Kagawa University. Archived from the original on 2009-02-01.
- ^ "H-IIA F15 Launch Sequence". JAXA.
- ^ Kagawa satellite development project STARS (English) Archived 2014-03-27 at the Wayback Machine (accessed 16 February 2012)
- ^ Herbert J. Kramer , STARS-II, eoPortal (accessed 7 July 2016)
- ^ M. Nohmi, "Initial Orbital Performance Result of Nano-Satellite STARS-II", International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (I-SAIRAS), Montreal, Canada, June 17–19, 2014(accessed 7 July 2016)
External links
[edit]- Official website (in Japanese)
- Official website (in English)
- Description of STARS
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