IKAROS JAXA Solar Sail mission |
IKAROS JAXA Solar Sail mission |
Mar 29 2010, 06:09 AM
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IKAROS sounds really cool, is there any website to find more info on it?
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Mar 29 2010, 07:19 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 540 Joined: 25-October 05 From: California Member No.: 535 |
IKAROS sounds really cool, is there any website to find more info on it? Project Page: http://www.jaxa.jp/projects/sat/ikaros/index_e.html Photos: http://jda.jaxa.jp/jda/p3_e.php?mode=level...mp;mission=9095 Description Page: http://www.jspec.jaxa.jp/e/activity/ikaros.html -------------------- 2011 JPL Tweetup photos: http://www.rich-parno.com/aa_jpltweetup.html
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Jun 16 2010, 02:09 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 447 Joined: 1-July 05 From: New York City Member No.: 424 |
Great picture of the fully deployed sail here (in case there's anyone at umsf.com who doesn't check Emily's blog several times a day.)
Are there any specs on how long the camera is expected to remain within wireless range? And what's the plan for the second camera? I like punkboi's suggestion of "a wide shot of IKAROS in deep space, with Venus in the background." TTT |
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Jun 30 2010, 01:53 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 817 Joined: 17-April 10 From: Kamakura, Japan Member No.: 5323 |
Great picture of the fully deployed sail here (in case there's anyone at umsf.com who doesn't check Emily's blog several times a day.) TTT I am not very surprised about this. About 15,16 years ago I was chatting to a prof at ISAS about the anntena opeinng of Halca space intereferometry satellite and asked him about the possibility. He simply flatly said that he would be extremely surprised if it did open up. Apparently, he had seen it fully opended up at Mitsubishi's kamakura factory and never believed it will open up in space, but it did... Second generation is going up in 2012, and what follows is some info on that. http://www.jaxa.jp/pr/brochure/pdf/04/sat24.pdf Of course, opening mechanisms must be different, I think. Halca anntena was built of very fine metal mesh, as I remember. Ikaros anntena must have been a lot easier to open up, I think. After all, it is a membrane, not a metal mesh. Pandaneko |
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