[2] Faculty of Agriculture [1] Faculty of Economics [2] Faculty of Education [3] Faculty of Engineering [4] Faculty of Law [5] Faculty of Medicine [6][permanent dead link‍] 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 Kagawa-Ehime Universities' Graduate School of Law United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences 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.

[3] 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.

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