The rocket launch time has been changed.
Launch Time
Mon Jun 23, 2025 06:18 JST
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/7137

◆Tiny Module:
Ageha, the swallowtail, with a length of 1 cm and a mass of 0.1g, represents hope for human presence on the moon and Mars. Its petit but deployable wing, developed by our Gacha Tent team, is composed of a perovskite cell, polycarbonate fragments, and Kapton fragments.
It deploys using the mechanism of an earwig's wing. In a transparent pillow on its back, the world's smallest LED is embedded. We would watch how these mechanisms and materials survive space flight. In full scale, developed by our AGEHA team, the wing becomes a huge tarp made of photovoltaic film that penetrates a suitable amount of sunlight to keep the warmth of a habitation capsule on its back.
The pillow represents the habitation capsule, developed by our Lunar/Martian Base Camp team, which will be made of aluminum sheet. It becomes deployable by using Sakura dimples and curved creases. We believe that our AGEHA module and Lunar/Martian Base Camp contribute to Space4all and Space Renaissance, making them a source of hope for young generations all over the world.

◆Launch:
Ageha Petit has been packed in a tray called Space Renaissance 4 All Gallery and is involved in the project Mission Possible conducted by Nyx. It will be launched into space on June 20th, PDT, using a Falcon 9 Transporter 14 rocket by Space X and will return to Earth.

◆Creators:
Jun Sato / Japan / The University of Tokyo & Jun Sato Structural Engineers Co., Ltd.
Ruta Stankeviciute / Lithuania / The University of Tokyo

　　　　　

Left: Ageha Petit, the tiny swallowtail module. (Photo by: Jun Sato)
Right: Ageha Petit's embedded blue LED, among the smallest in the world, is lit. (Photo by: Jun Sato)

　　　　　

Left: Ageha Petit, packed in the top right slot of the tray. (Photo from: https://www.sr4allgallery.com/)
Right: The palm-sized tray, as an art gallery. (Photo by: Jun Sato)）

　　　　　

Perovskite Cell Creative Contributor:
Aida Drevilkauskaite / Lithuania / Kaunas University of Technology

Gacha Tent development team:
The University of Tokyo / Ruta Stankeviciute, Jun Sato

Lunar / Martian Base Camp development team 2025 in the STARDUST Program:
The University of Tokyo / Jun Sato, Saneyuki Kawabata, Tomohiro Yokozeki, Ruta Stankeviciute, Martin Ivanov, Yuta Shimoda, Iuko Tsuwa, Hiromi Ishii, Keiichi Kutomi, Ayumi Sakamoto, Keiichiro Suzuki, Kengo Yagi, Kosei Atarashi, Tomoya Uchida, Wataru Nakayama, Issei Hirabayashi, Izumi Sato, Motoharu Iwasa, Yu Okumura, Yuki fujita, Takuma Kato, Shota Kawahara
Kyushu University / Kazuya Saito
Takenaka Corporation / Masato Ohata, Sho Tanaka, Tatsuho Sato, Ryuuya Matsuoka, Hideaki Tani, Atsushi Mizutani
JAXA / Masato Sakurai, Yasuhiro Awata, Nao Hoshinouchi

AGEHA development team:
The University of Tokyo & Jun Sato Structural Engineers Co., Ltd. / Jun Sato, Ruta Stankeviciute, Iuko Tsuwa, Martin Ivanov, Hiromi Ishii, Keiichi Kutomi, Izumi Sato
Kajima Corporation / Takuya Ono, Hayato Tobe, Makiko Nagura
Obayashi Corporation / Yasuhiro Fuchita, Yoji Ishikawa, Yoshitaka Takeuchi, Yoshihiro Kawakami, Ryuta Niinobe, Yosuke Wada
Taisei Corporation / Hironori Murase, Ken Shoji, Yuhei Oishi, Taiki Sato, Seiichi Yamada
Takenaka Corporation / Masato Ohata, Tatsuho Sato, Sho Tanaka, Yusuke Tominaga
Muroran Institute of Technology / Ken Higuchi
Tokai University / Kazuma Sekine

Acknowledgement:
STARDUST Program is conducted by MLIT, MEXT and CAO, Japan.