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 3 2011, 11:35 AM
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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 |
Aviation Week is running more or less the same story: Japanese Researchers Controlled Solar Sail
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Jun 3 2011, 03:00 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 70 Joined: 12-November 06 Member No.: 1354 |
Aviation Week is running more or less the same story: Japanese Researchers Controlled Solar Sail Thanks Paolo! I saw the Aviation Week story and came directly here to see if anyone had a link to Yuichi Tsuda's paper and, as always, UMSF came through. The sheer, simple elegance of this experimental spacecraft has always left me almost speechless. Integrating propulsion, power generation, attitude control, and science instrumentation into the sail was simply brilliant and a huge step beyond what any other solar sail experimental craft have been designed to do. I am so glad to see that JAXA and the IKAROS team have achieved all their goals and that so many of their concepts have been proven viable. It is without a doubt the crowning achievement of JAXA to date IMO. It may well be the most important spacecraft of the last decade in terms of spacecraft propulsion and control. I look forward to their follow-on spacecraft that will build on this success and add an Ion engine. |
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