International Astronautical Convress, 2019 LUIGI G. NAPOLITANO AWARD Finalist,Throttled Explicit Guidance for Lunar and Planetary Pinpoint LandingIto Takahiro Shin-ichiro Sakai
We present the SPICA Coronagraphic Instrument (SCI), which has been designed for a concentrated study of extra-solar planets (exoplanets). SPICA mission provides us with a unique opportunity to make high contrast observations because of its large ...
日本航空宇宙学会論文集 = Journal of the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences 58(682) 309-315 2010年11月
A radio astronomical observatory satellite ``ASTRO-G'', which will be launched in 2012, has two characteristics: flexible appendages and high-speed and high-precision attitude maneuvering. Because of these two antithetical features, attitude contr...
TRANSACTIONS OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES, AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY JAPAN 8(27) Po_4_1-Po_4_6 2010年
A space gravitational wave antenna, DECIGO (DECI-hertz interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory) will provide fruitful insights into the universe, particularly on dark energy, the formation mechanism of supermassive black holes, and the infla...
TRANSACTIONS OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES, AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY JAPAN 8(27) To_4_33-To_4_41 2010年 [査読有り]
Space VLBI (very long baseline interferometry) mission, ASTRO-G, will be launched in 2013 by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). ASTRO-G is a follow-on mission of HALCA (VSOP) mission in 1990s, which was the world first space VLBI mission. ...
Peter J. Buist   Sandra Verhagen   Tatsuaki Hashimoto   Shujiro Sawai   Shin-ichiro Sakai   Nobutaka Bando   Shigehito Shimizu   
2010 IEEE-ION POSITION LOCATION AND NAVIGATION SYMPOSIUM PLANS 1287-1294 2010年 [査読有り]
JAXA has been developing a system to provide a long duration, good quality microgravity environment based on a capsule, named the Balloon-based Operation Vehicle, that can be released from a balloon. In this paper we will describe the Balloon-base...