Ikaros-ready for lift-off as the world's first solar sail demonstration in interplanetary space

60th International Astronautical Congress 2009, IAC 2009

Volumn 8, Issue , 2009, Pages 6852-6858

  Kawaguchi, Jun'ichiro ^a   Mimasu, Yuya ^b   Mori, Osamu ^a   Ryu Funase, ^a   Yamamoto, Takayuki ^a   Tsuda, Yuichi ^a  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRIFUGAL FORCES; INTERPLANETARY CRUISE; INTERPLANETARY SPACE; JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY; PLANET-C; SOLAR POWER; SOLAR SAILS;

CENTRIFUGATION; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SOLAR POWER PLANTS; SOLAR RADIATION; SPACE RESEARCH;

INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT;

EID: 77953531331     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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