TY - GEN
T1 - Flight status of IKAROS deep space solar sail demonstrator
AU - Tsuda, Yuichi
AU - Mori, O.
AU - Funase, R.
AU - Sawada, H.
AU - Yamamoto, T.
AU - Saiki, T.
AU - Endo, T.
AU - Kawaguchi, J.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - JAXA launched the world's first deep-space solar sail demonstration spacecraft "IKAROS" on May 21, 2010. IKAROS was injected to an Earth-Venus trajectory to demonstrate several key technologies for solar sail utilizing the deep space flight environment. IKAROS succeeded in deploying a 20m-span solar sail on June 9, and is now flying toward Venus with the assist of solar photon acceleration. This paper describes the mission design, system design, solar sail deployment operation and current flight status of IKAROS.
AB - JAXA launched the world's first deep-space solar sail demonstration spacecraft "IKAROS" on May 21, 2010. IKAROS was injected to an Earth-Venus trajectory to demonstrate several key technologies for solar sail utilizing the deep space flight environment. IKAROS succeeded in deploying a 20m-span solar sail on June 9, and is now flying toward Venus with the assist of solar photon acceleration. This paper describes the mission design, system design, solar sail deployment operation and current flight status of IKAROS.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79959449093
SN - 9781617823688
T3 - 61st International Astronautical Congress 2010, IAC 2010
SP - 10379
EP - 10386
BT - 61st International Astronautical Congress 2010, IAC 2010
T2 - 61st International Astronautical Congress 2010, IAC 2010
Y2 - 27 September 2010 through 1 October 2010
ER -