SEEDS-2

The Space Engineering EDucation Satellite 2[1] (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.

[2] 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.

It also contains a voice transmitter, intended to play back messages to amateur radio operators.