TY - GEN
T1 - Status of microwave discharge ion engines on hayabusa spacecraft
AU - Kuninaka, Hitoshi
AU - Nishiyama, Kazutaka
AU - Shimizu, Yukio
AU - Hosoda, Satoshi
AU - Koizumi, Hiroyuki
AU - Kawaguchi, Ju N.Ichiro
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - The μ10 cathode-less electron cyclotron resonance ion engines made the Hayabusa spacecraft rendezvous with the asteroid Itokawa in 2005. Though the spacecraft was seriously damaged after the successful soft-landing and lift-off, the xenon cold gas jets from the ion engines rescued the Hayabusa. New attitude stabilization method using a single reaction wheel, the ion beam jets, and the solar pressure was established and enabled the homeward journey aiming the Earth return on 2010. The total accumulated operational time of the ion engines reaches 28,000 hours at the end of May 2007.
AB - The μ10 cathode-less electron cyclotron resonance ion engines made the Hayabusa spacecraft rendezvous with the asteroid Itokawa in 2005. Though the spacecraft was seriously damaged after the successful soft-landing and lift-off, the xenon cold gas jets from the ion engines rescued the Hayabusa. New attitude stabilization method using a single reaction wheel, the ion beam jets, and the solar pressure was established and enabled the homeward journey aiming the Earth return on 2010. The total accumulated operational time of the ion engines reaches 28,000 hours at the end of May 2007.
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U2 - 10.2514/6.2007-5196
DO - 10.2514/6.2007-5196
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:36749019212
SN - 1563479036
SN - 9781563479038
T3 - Collection of Technical Papers - 43rd AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference
SP - 1885
EP - 1891
BT - Collection of Technical Papers - 43rd AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference
PB - American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc.
T2 - 43rd AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference
Y2 - 8 July 2007 through 11 July 2007
ER -