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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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 -------------------- 2011 JPL Tweetup photos: http://www.rich-parno.com/aa_jpltweetup.html
http://human-spaceflight.blogspot.com |
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Jun 8 2010, 03:21 PM
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Another fascinating mission from JAXA :-) Hope it all goes well.
Can anyone tell me if it is planned to put IKAROS into orbit around Venus? Is it possible? Or will there be a flyby? Is there any information available about how much force/acceleration the sail experiences due to solar wind and radiation pressure? Thanks and regards, Brian |
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Jun 8 2010, 04:41 PM
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QUOTE (BrianJ @ Jun 8 2010, 07:21 AM) Another fascinating mission from JAXA :-) Hope it all goes well. Can anyone tell me if it is planned to put IKAROS into orbit around Venus? Is it possible? Or will there be a flyby? Is there any information available about how much force/acceleration the sail experiences due to solar wind and radiation pressure? Thanks and regards, Brian Brian, the only info I've found is from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKAROS which states "IKAROS will unfurl its sail several weeks after launch, then will spend six months traveling to Venus, and then will begin a three-year journey to the far side of the Sun." Their source was an article in the The Guardian Weekly http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/1...ros-japan-venus. The Guardian article contains several errors so I'm not sure of its validity. |
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Jun 8 2010, 06:10 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 540 Joined: 25-October 05 From: California Member No.: 535 |
Believe it or not, the Guardian is correct.
 IKAROS will deploy a small free-floating camera once its solar sail completely deploys (which hopefully already happened) to photograph the spacecraft in all her diamond-shaped (or square-shaped, depending on your POV) beauty... I gotta check online to see if it has a second camera onboard that it could deploy once it reaches Venus. To have a wide shot of IKAROS in deep space, with Venus in the background would be one of the coolest space images, ever. -------------------- 2011 JPL Tweetup photos: http://www.rich-parno.com/aa_jpltweetup.html
http://human-spaceflight.blogspot.com |
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