CA-SAT-1E is an experimental Earth observation microsatellite built and operated by Canon Electronics. The 50 kg class satellite is built on a 50 cm × 50 cm × 70 cm structure built by AxelSpace built platform based on the Hodoyoshi-1 satellite. It features an optical imaging system based on a 40 cm diameter Cassegrain telescope with 3720 mm focal length and an detector based on the EOS 5D mk.3 camera with 5760 × 3840 pixels. This imaging system provides an 1 m ground resolution from a 600 km orbit with a 6 km × 4 km frame size.