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IKAROS JAXA Solar Sail mission
Vultur
post 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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post Mar 29 2010, 07:19 PM
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QUOTE (Vultur @ Mar 28 2010, 10:09 PM) *
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


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My wife's rough translation is that it's over 200 million km from Earth & hasn't been receiving enough solar power to operate; she used the word "sleep". Apparently in June it's expected to operate well enough to return (I assume) engineering data, but 7 months from now that'll be effectively EOM.

(Again, VERY rough translation; Kay wants to always state that she's got no background at all in space-related matters, and modern Japanese slang (esp. of the Net variety) is unfamiliar to her.)


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- punkboi   IKAROS JAXA Solar Sail mission   Mar 29 2010, 07:19 PM
- - Paolo   no need to apologize. great news indeed!   Sep 11 2012, 05:03 AM
- - elakdawalla   Thoroughly confirmed! IKAROS is alive!   Sep 11 2012, 05:28 AM
|- - punkboi   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Sep 10 2012, 09:28 P...   Sep 12 2012, 07:33 PM
- - Paolo   a release in English http://www.jaxa.jp/projects/s...   Sep 11 2012, 05:53 PM
- - Paolo   according to the latest blog entry http://www.isas...   Sep 15 2012, 07:15 AM
- - Paolo   Disorganization of project teams, Space missions ...   Mar 29 2013, 08:35 AM
- - Paolo   it looks like IKAROS was contacted again on 22 May...   May 26 2014, 11:14 AM
- - nprev   My wife's rough translation is that it's o...   May 26 2014, 03:20 PM
- - Vultur   Has anything more been said about the proposed lat...   Jun 1 2014, 06:32 PM
- - Paolo   and an English release: IKAROS wakes up from hiber...   Jun 4 2014, 05:14 AM
- - katodomo   Just wondering... if Ikaros - like now - is still ...   Apr 26 2015, 03:00 PM
- - Phil Stooke   That might depend on the solar sail effect on the ...   Apr 26 2015, 06:52 PM
- - Paolo   IKAROS wakes up from hibernation mode for the 4th ...   Apr 30 2015, 03:34 PM
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