Achievement of IKAROS - Japanese deep space solar sail demonstration mission

被引：222

作者：

Tsuda, Yuichi ^{[1
]}

Mori, Osamu ^{[1
]}

Funase, Ryu ^{[1
]}

Sawada, Hirotaka ^{[1
]}

Yamamoto, Takayuki ^{[1
]}

Saiki, Takanao ^{[1
]}

Endo, Tatsuya ^{[1
]}

Yonekura, Katsuhide ^{[1
]}

Hoshino, Hirokazu ^{[1
]}

Kawaguchi, Jun'ichiro ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Japan Aerosp Explorat Agcy, JAXA Space Explorat Ctr, Chuo Ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

来源：

ACTA ASTRONAUTICA | 2013年 / 82卷 / 02期

关键词：

Solar sail; Technology demonstration; Deep space exploration;

D O I：

10.1016/j.actaastro.2012.03.032

中图分类号：

V [航空、航天];

学科分类号：

08 ; 0825 ;

摘要：

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. (c) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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页码：183 / 188

页数：6