TY - GEN
T1 - Hayabusa's 1st half of return cruise - flight results on attitude control and ion engines propulsion
AU - Kawaguchi, Junichiro
AU - Mori, Osamu
AU - Kuninaka, Hitoshi
AU - Kominato, Takashi
AU - Shirakawa, Kenichi
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - The paper presents the attitude reorientation taking the advantage of solar radiation pressure without use of any fuel aboard. The strategy had been adopted to make Hayabusa spacecraft keep pointed toward the Sun for several months, while spinning. The paper adds the above mentioned results reported in Sedona this February showing another challenge of combining ion engines propulsion tactically balanced with the solar radiation torque with no spin motion. The operation has been performed since this March for a half year successfully. The flight results are presented with the estimated solar array panel diffusion coefficient and the ion engine's swirl torque.
AB - The paper presents the attitude reorientation taking the advantage of solar radiation pressure without use of any fuel aboard. The strategy had been adopted to make Hayabusa spacecraft keep pointed toward the Sun for several months, while spinning. The paper adds the above mentioned results reported in Sedona this February showing another challenge of combining ion engines propulsion tactically balanced with the solar radiation torque with no spin motion. The operation has been performed since this March for a half year successfully. The flight results are presented with the estimated solar array panel diffusion coefficient and the ion engine's swirl torque.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:60349090607
SN - 9780877035442
T3 - Advances in the Astronautical Sciences
SP - 1133
EP - 1148
BT - Space Flight Mechanics 2008 - Advances in the Astronautical Sciences, Proceedings of the AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting
ER -