It looks as though the launch of HITSAT was a success with the signals being received around the world.

HITSAT was developed by the student association 'Hokkaido Space Union' of the Hokkaido Institute of Technology.

It was launched from the Uchinoura Space Center on the M-V-7 rocket as a sub-payload and is in a sun synchronous orbit with an orbital altitude of 250km at perigee and 600km at apogee with an inclination of 97.79 degrees.

HITSAT is a 12cm cube with a mass of 2.2 kg. It carries a 100 milliwatt CW beacon on 437.275 MHz and an FM transmitter on 437.425 MHz with a 145.980 MHz uplink.

HITSAT Homepage
http://www.hit.ac.jp/%7Esatori/hitsat/index-e.html

See also this page which has a picture of some those involved in HITSAT
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/august2006/hitsat.htm

Some HITSAT emails posted to the AMSAT Bulletin Board
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/tools/maillist/

M-V-7/SOLAR-B/HITSAT launch success!
   
21:36:30 UTC, Sep 22, 2006
06:36:30 JST, Sep 23, 2006
http://jaxa.tv/

Mineo Wakita / JE9PEL, JAMSAT member
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Hitsat over europe
Hi, just heard HITSAT over europe - 0653 - 0701 UTC, 437.275MHz
 
0d9d2e5
hi t1 jr8yjt
.. c1d8d1c2
hi t1 jr8yjt
hi t2 90121314928
hi t3 0e4c4f494e...
LOS
 
73, Mike DK3WN
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HITSAT Keps

OBJECT ?
1 00000U 060000   06265.90462963  .00000000  00000-0  00000-0 0  0007
2 00000  98.3190 274.0460 0296020 127.2240 032.8070 15.29572426 00005
OBJECT A
1 29479U 06041A   06266.00676875  .09221790  55074-1  94972-1 0    20
2 29479 098.3158 274.1513 0283162 130.1928 232.3173 15.31579544    01
OBJECT D
1 29482U 06041D   06266.00671643  .11084232  87703-1  11982+0 0    25
2 29482 098.3448 274.1626 0275579 129.0668 233.4119 15.32586376    18

Mineo Wakita / JE9PEL, JAMSAT member
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