| WE WISH | |
| Mission Type: | Technology demonstration Amateur radio Earth observation |
| Operator: | Meisei Amateur Radio Club |
| Cospar Id: | 2012-038F (1998-067CS) |
| Satcat: | 38856 |
| Mission Duration: | 158 days (achieved) 100 days (planned) |
| Spacecraft Type: | CubeSat |
| Spacecraft Bus: | CubeSat |
| Manufacturer: | Meisei Electric Meisei Amateur Radio Club |
| Dimensions: | 10 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm (1U) |
| Launch Date: | 21 July 2012, 02:06:18 UTC[1] |
| Launch Rocket: | H-IIB F3 |
| Launch Site: | Tanegashima, Yoshinobu LC-Y2 |
| Launch Contractor: | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries |
| Deployment From: | ISS Kibō Delivered by Kounotori 3 |
| Deployment Date: | 4 October 2012, 15:44:15.297 UTC [2] |
| Decay Date: | 11 March 2013 |
| Orbit Reference: | Geocentric orbit[3] |
| Orbit Regime: | Low Earth orbit |
| Orbit Inclination: | 51.6° |
| Orbit Period: | 92.79 minutes |
| Apsis: | gee |
WE WISH (World Environmental Watching and Investigation from Space Height) was a small commercial CubeSat which was deployed from the International Space Station (ISS) in October 2012 and which deorbited in March 2013.[4] It was built by the Japanese technology company Meisei Electric[5] and the Meisei Amateur Radio Club, and could transmit pictures taken by a small infrared camera via radio at 437.515 MHz.[6] WE WISH travelled to orbit aboard Kounotori 3 (HTV-3) on 21 July 2012, along with other CubeSats including RAIKO, FITSAT-1, F-1, and TechEdSat-1.[5]
It was deployed, along with the other CubeSats, from Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) Kibō via the Japanese Experiment Module-Small Satellite Orbital Deployer (J-SSOD) system on 4 October 2012.[7] [8] [9]