European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP 721 SP 43-45 2013年 [査読有り]
The sounding rockets are used for various objectives such as studies of thermospheric, ionospheric, magnetospheric physics, astrophysics, microgravity experiment, demonstration of various instrument and technique, and advanced engineering experime...
Andrew W. Yau Andrew Howarth W. K. Peterson Takumi Abe
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS 117 2012年7月 [査読有り]
The presence of energetic O+ ions in the ring current at the onset of a magnetic storm prompts the question of the possible role of "in-transit" ionospheric O+ ions between the ionosphere and the plasma sheet and ring current in the quiet periods ...
J. Moen K. Oksavik T. Abe M. Lester Y. Saito T. A. Bekkeng K. S. Jacobsen
Geophysical Research Letters 39(7) 2012年4月 [査読有り]
The sounding rocket Investigation of Cusp Irregularities 2 (ICI-2) was launched into the cusp ionosphere over Svalbard to investigate the production of decameter scale irregularities in the electron plasma associated with HF radar backscatter. The...
Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 45(7) 2012年2月 [査読有り]
Langmuir probe (LP) measurement generally requires a reference electrode with large surface area compared with that of a probe. Whereas a reference electrode with large surface area is available in laboratory experiments, surface area of the refer...
48th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit 2012 2012年
The experiment of charged particle collection by a bare electrodynamic tape tether was performed by using JAXA's sounding rocket S-520-25 on August 31, 2010. This was the first experiment of bare tape tether in space in the world. This paper shows...
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