Deployment experiment of solar sail using sounding rocket

Shinsuke Takeuchi; Kenji Minesugi; Junjiro Onoda; Jun'ichiro Kawaguchi

Deployment experiment of solar sail using sounding rocket

Shinsuke Takeuchi, Kenji Minesugi, Junjiro Onoda, Jun'ichiro Kawaguchi

Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

Abstract

A solar sail is one of propulsion systems for near future interplanetary mission, which uses solar pressure for thrust by reflecting sunlight with very large membrane. We investigate the solar sail as a candidate of engineering test satellite. In order to verify the solar sail design, a deployment experiment is needed, but it is difficult to perform an experiment of large membrane on the ground because of its lower stiffness. To solve this problem, we plan to use a sounding rocket. In this paper we describe our study and plan.

Original language	English
Pages	1557-1562
Number of pages	6
Publication status	Published - 2003
Externally published	Yes
Event	54th International Astronautical Congress of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF), the International Academy of Astronautics and the International Institute of Space Law - Bremen, Germany Duration: 2003 Sept 29 → 2003 Oct 3

Conference

Conference	54th International Astronautical Congress of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF), the International Academy of Astronautics and the International Institute of Space Law
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Bremen
Period	03/9/29 → 03/10/3

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Engineering(all)

Cite this

Deployment experiment of solar sail using sounding rocket. / Takeuchi, Shinsuke; Minesugi, Kenji; Onoda, Junjiro et al.

2003. 1557-1562 Paper presented at 54th International Astronautical Congress of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF), the International Academy of Astronautics and the International Institute of Space Law, Bremen, Germany.

Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

@conference{4d14b4d3e41747cf8eb00f7bce6ed1a6,

title = "Deployment experiment of solar sail using sounding rocket",

abstract = "A solar sail is one of propulsion systems for near future interplanetary mission, which uses solar pressure for thrust by reflecting sunlight with very large membrane. We investigate the solar sail as a candidate of engineering test satellite. In order to verify the solar sail design, a deployment experiment is needed, but it is difficult to perform an experiment of large membrane on the ground because of its lower stiffness. To solve this problem, we plan to use a sounding rocket. In this paper we describe our study and plan.",

author = "Shinsuke Takeuchi and Kenji Minesugi and Junjiro Onoda and Jun'ichiro Kawaguchi",

year = "2003",

language = "English",

pages = "1557--1562",

note = "54th International Astronautical Congress of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF), the International Academy of Astronautics and the International Institute of Space Law ; Conference date: 29-09-2003 Through 03-10-2003",

}

TY - CONF

T1 - Deployment experiment of solar sail using sounding rocket

AU - Takeuchi, Shinsuke

AU - Minesugi, Kenji

AU - Onoda, Junjiro

AU - Kawaguchi, Jun'ichiro

PY - 2003

Y1 - 2003

N2 - A solar sail is one of propulsion systems for near future interplanetary mission, which uses solar pressure for thrust by reflecting sunlight with very large membrane. We investigate the solar sail as a candidate of engineering test satellite. In order to verify the solar sail design, a deployment experiment is needed, but it is difficult to perform an experiment of large membrane on the ground because of its lower stiffness. To solve this problem, we plan to use a sounding rocket. In this paper we describe our study and plan.

AB - A solar sail is one of propulsion systems for near future interplanetary mission, which uses solar pressure for thrust by reflecting sunlight with very large membrane. We investigate the solar sail as a candidate of engineering test satellite. In order to verify the solar sail design, a deployment experiment is needed, but it is difficult to perform an experiment of large membrane on the ground because of its lower stiffness. To solve this problem, we plan to use a sounding rocket. In this paper we describe our study and plan.

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=22344453864&partnerID=8YFLogxK

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=22344453864&partnerID=8YFLogxK

M3 - Paper

AN - SCOPUS:22344453864

SP - 1557

EP - 1562

T2 - 54th International Astronautical Congress of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF), the International Academy of Astronautics and the International Institute of Space Law

Y2 - 29 September 2003 through 3 October 2003

ER -

Deployment experiment of solar sail using sounding rocket

Abstract

Conference

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this