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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Jan 25 2011, 01:31 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1452 Joined: 26-July 08 Member No.: 4270 |
Oh I know. I thought it was understood we were just throwing ideas out there in a hypothetical situation.
QUOTE ...But will have to stay just a thought, alas.
-------------------- -- Hungry4info (Sirius_Alpha)
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Jan 25 2011, 10:44 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 259 Joined: 23-January 05 From: Seattle, WA Member No.: 156 |
I was thinking that it would make a great demonstration if Ikaros could be maneuvered to rendezvous with Akatsuki at some point during the next few years... but yeah: just tossing around hypotheticals.
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Jan 26 2011, 12:51 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 817 Joined: 17-April 10 From: Kamakura, Japan Member No.: 5323 |
I was thinking that it would make a great demonstration if Ikaros could be maneuvered to rendezvous with Akatsuki at some point during the next few years... but yeah: just tossing around hypotheticals. Before the demise of Akatsuki I was not terribly interested in this craft. I just thought of it as a planar object going around in space. Now, I just wonder, do they at JAXA know where it is going? Or, are they supposed to know where it is going? With every other space craft people who sent them out there must have pre-determined flight plans for them to follow, including when the project is supposed to end. For instance, Prof Kawaguchi with Hayabusa, he apparently said he considers that the end of Hayabusa project is when international calls are invited later this year. That is simple and clear. With this planar space craft I have not been able to find anything about its future whereabouts. I am just intrigued to know what is going on...By the way, there was an article in yesterday's Asahi newspaper about a space net that JAXA want to send up into near earth orbits in a few years time to capture space debris and burn them out with the net on destructive re-entry. Pandaneko |
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