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 30 2011, 02:38 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1729 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
can't wait to read the rest of the translation! many thanks in advance Pandaneko!
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Jan 31 2011, 12:53 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 817 Joined: 17-April 10 From: Kamakura, Japan Member No.: 5323 |
Page 2: IKAROS report
0: Today's reporting items We have been operating the small solar power sail engineering test spacecraft for the last 6 months, and we herewith confirm mission achievements based on the results so far and at the same time report on the latter part of the (continued) mission envisaged. 1: Mission objectives and significance objectives 1.1 This is a front loading project for reducing the cost of development for the next project that we wish to run. 1.2 We wished to confirm the possibility of solar sailing and at the same time check on the power generation on the sail surface for the future hybrid propulsion system (no ion engines used this time) IKAROS = Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation Of the SunPage 2 P |
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