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IKAROS

2010-10-04T19:10:25Z

Gwawrzyn:

Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation Of the Sun (IKAROS) is a project of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ([http://www.jaxa.jp/index_e.html JAXA]) to test fly a 20-m solar sail with integrated thin-film photovoltaics as a secondary payload of their [http://www.jaxa.jp/projects/sat/planet_c/index_e.html Venus Climate Orbiter "AKATSUKI" (PLANET-C)] mission. [[News#AKATSUKI and IKAROS ready for launch|IKAROS launched May 20, 2010, at 21:58 UTC]], and has [[News#IKAROS Moves to Verification Experiment Stage|started the verification experiment stage]] of the mission. Deployment of the sail June 3-10, 2010, was successful.
<cite>Morietal2009:Sakamotoetal2009:Yamazakietal2009:Shirasawaetal2009:Funaseetal2009:Yamaguchietal2009:Houetal2009:Sawadaetal2009:Mimasuetal2009</cite>

==Links==
* [http://www.jaxa.jp/projects/sat/ikaros/index_e.html JAXA IKAROS Mission Page]
* [http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/home/IKAROS-blog/ IKAROS Blog (Japanese)] and [http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=ja&tl=en&u=http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/home/IKAROS-blog/&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&twu=1&usg=ALkJrhiafAPNG54YNmD6IP_urYi0wuaVHQ Google translation to English]
* [http://www.jspec.jaxa.jp/ikaros_channel/index.html IKAROS Channel (Japanese)] and [http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jspec.jaxa.jp%2Fikaros_channel%2Findex.html&sl=ja&tl=en Google translation to English]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_6HOqBkP2o YouTube video overview of IKAROS (Japanese)]
* [http://www.jaxa.jp/countdown/f17/overview/ikaros_e.html IKAROS countdown page]
* [http://www.jspec.jaxa.jp/e/activity/ikaros.html JAXA IKAROS Project page]
* [http://www.jaxa.jp/countdown/f17/index_e.html Venus Climate Orbiter "AKATSUKI" countdown page]
* [http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2009/09/20090909_sac_ikaros_j.html JAXA IKAROS press release (in Japanese)]
* [[News#Crunch Gear: They now use solar technology to propel satellites|Crunch Gear article]]
* [http://www.senkyo.co.jp/ists2009/papers/html/program/index.html 27th International Symposium on Space Technology and Science program]
* [http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0911/10solarsails/ Spaceflight Now: Two solar sailing trials readied for launch next year]

==References==
The references from the 27th International Symposium on Space Technology and Science, held on July 5-10, 2009, in Tsukuba, Japan, can now be found by searching in http://archive.ists.or.jp/.
{{Bibliography}}

[[Category:Missions]]
[[Category:Demonstration]]
[[Category:Solar Power]]
[[Category:Spin Stabilized]]

IKAROS

2010-10-04T19:09:50Z

Gwawrzyn:

Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation Of the Sun (IKAROS) is a project of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ([http://www.jaxa.jp/index_e.html JAXA]) to test fly a 20-m solar sail with integrated thin-film photovoltaics as a secondary payload of their [http://www.jaxa.jp/projects/sat/planet_c/index_e.html Venus Climate Orbiter "AKATSUKI" (PLANET-C)] mission. [[News#AKATSUKI and IKAROS ready for launch|IKAROS launched May 20, 2010, at 21:58 UTC]], and has [[News#IKAROS Moves to Verification Experiment Stage|started the verification experiment stage]] of the mission. Deployment of the sail June 3-10, 2010, was successful.
<cite>Morietal2009:Sakamotoetal2009:Yamazakietal2009:Shirasawaetal2009:Funaseetal2009:Yamaguchietal2009:Houetal2009:Sawadaetal2009:Mimasuetal2009</cite>

==Links==
* [http://www.jaxa.jp/projects/sat/ikaros/index_e.html JAXA IKAROS Mission Page]
* [http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/home/IKAROS-blog/ IKAROS Blog (Japanese)] and [http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=ja&tl=en&u=http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/home/IKAROS-blog/&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&twu=1&usg=ALkJrhiafAPNG54YNmD6IP_urYi0wuaVHQ Google translation to English]
* [http://www.jspec.jaxa.jp/ikaros_channel/index.html IKAROS Channel (Japanese)] and [http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jspec.jaxa.jp%2Fikaros_channel%2Findex.html&sl=ja&tl=en Google translation to English]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_6HOqBkP2o YouTube video overview of IKAROS (Japanese)]
* [http://www.jaxa.jp/countdown/f17/overview/ikaros_e.html IKAROS countdown page]
* [http://www.jspec.jaxa.jp/e/activity/ikaros.html JAXA IKAROS Project page]
* [http://www.jaxa.jp/countdown/f17/index_e.html Venus Climate Orbiter "AKATSUKI" countdown page]
* [http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2009/09/20090909_sac_ikaros_j.html JAXA IKAROS press release (in Japanese)]
* [[News#Crunch Gear: They now use solar technology to propel satellites|Crunch Gear article]]
* [http://www.senkyo.co.jp/ists2009/papers/html/program/index.html 27th International Symposium on Space Technology and Science program]
* [http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0911/10solarsails/ Spaceflight Now: Two solar sailing trials readied for launch next year]

==References==
The references from the 27th International Symposium on Space Technology and Science, held on July 5-10, 2009, in Tsukuba, Japan, can now be found by searching on http://archive.ists.or.jp/.
{{Bibliography}}

[[Category:Missions]]
[[Category:Demonstration]]
[[Category:Solar Power]]
[[Category:Spin Stabilized]]