Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
The Space Engineering EDucation Satellite 2 (SEEDS-2) is a Japanese amateur CubeSat picosatellite built and operated by Nihon University. It was launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation aboard a PSLV rocket on 28 April 2008. It was built to replace the SEEDS satellite which was lost in a launch failure on a Dnepr rocket in July 2006.It carries a number of sensors to investigate the environment of space and its own status.