2003年
MUSES-C, its launch and early orbit operations
PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIFTH IAA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LOW-COST PLANETARY MISSIONS
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- 2003年 - 2003年
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- 英語
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- ESA PUBLICATIONS DIVISION C/O ESTEC
The MUSES-C was launched on May 9(th) of this year and was named 'Hayabusa'. It takes an aim at the world's first sample and return from a near Earth asteroid, 1998SF36 now renamed "Itokawa". The spacecraft is a kind of technology demonstrator with four key technologies. The paper presents a quick report on the initial operation of the ion engines aboard and will show how the attitude control has been performed incorporating the closed loop de-saturation function onboard. The paper also presents how much delta-V has been applied to the spacecraft as well as how the orbit determination under the low-thrust acceleration has been performed.