Masafumi Imai

Research Scientist

Department of Space Physics

Institute of Atmospheric Physics

The Czech Academy of Sciences

Bocni II 1401, 14100 Prague 4, Czechia

Outreach Activities

Photo of a workshop in Akagane Museum on October 29, 2022.

Sharing an experience for receiving the Morse code radio signal from KOSEN-1 CubeSat

With volunteer students, we have hold a workshop for receiving the Morse code radio signal from KOSEN-1 CubeSat. In 2022-2023, our workshop was taken place in Akagane Museum, Ehime Prefectural Science Museum, and Ishizuchi Climbing Park SAIJO.

Outreach Events

Ehime Prefectural Science Museum (17 people), Ehime, December 9, 2023. [URL]
Ishizuchi Climbing Park SAIJO (19 people), Ehime, October 22, 2023. [URL]
National Institute of Technology, Niihama College (about 15 people as members of Niihama Boys and Girls Invention Club), Ehime, February 18, 2023.
Ehime Prefectural Science Museum (16 people), Ehime, December 17, 2022. [URL]
Akagane Museum (about 20 people), Ehime, October 29, 2022. [URL]
Akagane Museum (about 20 people), Ehime, April 30, 2022. [URL]

Outreach Articles

Takaoka, T., Elementary and junior high school students catch "satellite voices" with handmade antennas at Niihama KOSEN Workshop in Saijo (in Japanese), The Ehime Shimbun, 27 Oct. 2023, p. 9. [Online Article]
Takaoka, T., Niihama KOSEN students develop nano-satellites with other KOSEN students (in Japanese), The Ehime Shimbun, 10 Nov. 2022, p. 9. [Online Article]
Kuroda, N., Development of nano-satellites in Niihama (in Japanese), The Ehime Shimbun, 23 Jan. 2022, p. 17. [Online Article]
Imai, M. and K. Imai (2021), Jupiter Radio Observation CubeSat: KOSEN-1 Ready to Launch in October, The JOVE Bulletin, August. [Online Article]
Imai, M. and J. Faden (2018), A New Way to Visualize Radio Jove Data Using Autoplot, The JOVE Bulletin, July. [Online Article]
Imai, M. (2007), The Internet Solar Radio Observatory (ISRO), The JOVE Bulletin, December. [Online Article]

Stories Behind KOSEN CubeSat Developments

Akagane Museum, The teachers who supported the development of KOSEN-1 (1) (in Japanese), Note, Coming-of-age episode 6, 16 Nov. 2024. [Online Article]
Akagane Museum, The teachers who supported the development of KOSEN-1 (2) (in Japanese), Note, Coming-of-age episode 7, 16 Nov. 2024. [Online Article]
Akagane Museum, The last year of the student at National Institute of Technology with KOSEN-1 (1) (in Japanese), Note, Coming-of-age episode 8, 16 Nov. 2024. [Online Article]
Akagane Museum, The last year of the student at National Institute of Technology with KOSEN-1 (2) (in Japanese), Note, Coming-of-age episode 9, 16 Nov. 2024. [Online Article]
Akagane Museum, Mr. Kubota's KOSEN-2 CubeSat development days (in Japanese), Note, Coming-of-age episode 10, 16 Nov. 2024. [Online Article]
Akagane Museum, The day the KOSEN-2 CubeSat didn't fly in space (in Japanese), Note, Coming-of-age episode 11, 16 Nov. 2024. [Online Article]
Akagane Museum, A view changed by the KOSEN-2 CubeSat (in Japanese), Note, Coming-of-age episode 12, 16 Nov. 2024. [Online Article]

Outreach Publications

Imai, M., K. Imai, M. Tsuji, M. Tokumitsu, and M. Wakabayashi (2024), Hands-on Manufacturing Education: Radio Reception Experiment from KOSEN CubeSat Using Cardboard Yagi Antenna (in Japanese), J. JSEE, 72(5), 5_117-5_122, doi:10.4307/jsee.72.5_117. [Erratum]