TY - JOUR
T1 - Achievement of IKAROS-Japanese deep space solar sail demonstration mission
AU - Tsuda, Yuichi
AU - Mori, Osamu
AU - Funase, Ryu
AU - Sawada, Hirotaka
AU - Yamamoto, Takayuki
AU - Saiki, Takanao
AU - Endo, Tatsuya
AU - Yonekura, Katsuhide
AU - Hoshino, Hirokazu
AU - Kawaguchi, Jun'Ichiro
PY - 2013/2
Y1 - 2013/2
N2 - This paper describes achievements of the IKAROS project, the world's first successful interplanetary solar power sail technology demonstration mission. It was developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and was launched from Tanegashima Space Center on May 21, 2010. IKAROS successfully deployed a 20 m-span sail on June 9, 2010. Since then IKAROS has performed interplanetary solar-sailing taking advantage of an Earth-Venus leg of the interplanetary trajectory. We declared the completion of the nominal mission phase in the end of December 2010 when IKAROS successfully passed by Venus with the assist of solar sailing. This paper describes the overview of the IKAROS spacecraft system, how the world's first interplanetary solar sailer has been operated and what were achieved by the end of the nominal mission phase.
AB - This paper describes achievements of the IKAROS project, the world's first successful interplanetary solar power sail technology demonstration mission. It was developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and was launched from Tanegashima Space Center on May 21, 2010. IKAROS successfully deployed a 20 m-span sail on June 9, 2010. Since then IKAROS has performed interplanetary solar-sailing taking advantage of an Earth-Venus leg of the interplanetary trajectory. We declared the completion of the nominal mission phase in the end of December 2010 when IKAROS successfully passed by Venus with the assist of solar sailing. This paper describes the overview of the IKAROS spacecraft system, how the world's first interplanetary solar sailer has been operated and what were achieved by the end of the nominal mission phase.
KW - Deep space exploration
KW - Solar sail
KW - Technology demonstration
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U2 - 10.1016/j.actaastro.2012.03.032
DO - 10.1016/j.actaastro.2012.03.032
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84871202976
VL - 82
SP - 183
EP - 188
JO - Acta Astronautica
JF - Acta Astronautica
SN - 0094-5765
IS - 2
ER -