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IKAROS

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IKAROS (Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation Of the Sun) is a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) experimental spacecraft. [1]

35 relations: Akatsuki (spacecraft), Asteroid, Attitude control, Cosmic dust, CubeSail, CubeSail (UltraSail), CubeSat, Gamma-ray burst, Geocentric orbit, Guinness World Records, H-IIA, Heliocentric orbit, JAXA, Jupiter, Jupiter trojan, LightSail 2, Liquid-crystal display, List of missions to Venus, Low Earth orbit, NanoSail-D2, Near-Earth Asteroid Scout, OKEANOS, Polarization (waves), Polyimide, PowerFilm, Radiation pressure, Reflectance, Revolutions per minute, Solar sail, Solar wind, Tanegashima Space Center, The Planetary Society, Usuda Deep Space Center, Venus, Yoshinobu Launch Complex.

Akatsuki (spacecraft)

, also known as the Venus Climate Orbiter (VCO) and Planet-C, is a Japanese (JAXA) space probe tasked to study the atmosphere of Venus.

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Asteroid

Asteroids are minor planets, especially those of the inner Solar System.

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Attitude control

Attitude control is controlling the orientation of an object with respect to an inertial frame of reference or another entity like the celestial sphere, certain fields, and nearby objects, etc.

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Cosmic dust

Cosmic dust, also called extraterrestrial dust or space dust, is dust which exists in outer space, as well as all over planet Earth.

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CubeSail

CubeSail is a nanosatellite project by the Surrey Space Centre (SSC) in England.

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CubeSail (UltraSail)

CubeSail mission is a low-cost spacecraft propulsion demonstration using two identical 1.5U CubeSat satellites to deploy a 260 m-long, 20 m2 solar sail ribbon between them.

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CubeSat

A CubeSat (U-class spacecraft) is a type of miniaturized satellite for space research that is made up of multiples of 10×10×10 cm cubic units.

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Gamma-ray burst

In gamma-ray astronomy, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are extremely energetic explosions that have been observed in distant galaxies.

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Geocentric orbit

A geocentric orbit or Earth orbit involves any object orbiting Planet Earth, such as the Moon or artificial satellites.

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Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

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H-IIA

H-IIA (H2A) is an active expendable launch system operated by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.

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Heliocentric orbit

A heliocentric orbit (also called circumsolar orbit) is an orbit around the barycenter of the Solar System, which is usually located within or very near the surface of the Sun.

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JAXA

The is the Japanese national aerospace and space agency.

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Jupiter

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.

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Jupiter trojan

The Jupiter trojans, commonly called Trojan asteroids or just Trojans, are a large group of asteroids that share the planet Jupiter's orbit around the Sun.

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LightSail 2

LightSail 2 is a project to demonstrate controlled solar sailing using a CubeSat developed by The Planetary Society, a global non-profit organization devoted to space exploration.

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Liquid-crystal display

A liquid-crystal display (LCD) is a flat-panel display or other electronically modulated optical device that uses the light-modulating properties of liquid crystals.

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List of missions to Venus

This is a list of space missions to the planet Venus.

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Low Earth orbit

A low Earth orbit (LEO) is an orbit around Earth with an altitude of or less, and with an orbital period of between about 84 and 127 minutes.

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NanoSail-D2

NanoSail-D2 was a small satellite built by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and Ames Research Center to study the deployment of a solar sail in space.

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Near-Earth Asteroid Scout

The Near-Earth Asteroid Scout (NEA Scout) is a planned mission by NASA to develop a controllable low-cost CubeSat solar sail spacecraft capable of encountering near-Earth asteroids (NEA).

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OKEANOS

OKEANOS (Outsized Kite-craft for Exploration and Astronautics in the Outer Solar System) is a proposed mission concept to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids using a hybrid solar sail for propulsion; the sail is covered with thin solar panels to power an ion engine.

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Polarization (waves)

Polarization (also polarisation) is a property applying to transverse waves that specifies the geometrical orientation of the oscillations.

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Polyimide

Polyimide (sometimes abbreviated PI) is a polymer of imide monomers.

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PowerFilm

PowerFilm, Inc. is a manufacturer of flexible thin film solar photovoltaic (PV) modules, or solar panels, based in Ames, Iowa and is a provider of solar products for industrial, consumer and military remote power applications.

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Radiation pressure

Radiation pressure is the pressure exerted upon any surface due to the exchange of momentum between the object and the electromagnetic field.

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Reflectance

Reflectance of the surface of a material is its effectiveness in reflecting radiant energy.

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Revolutions per minute

Revolutions per minute (abbreviated rpm, RPM, rev/min, r/min) is the number of turns in one minute.

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Solar sail

Solar sails (also called light sails or photon sails) are a proposed method of spacecraft propulsion using radiation pressure exerted by sunlight on large mirrors.

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Solar wind

The solar wind is a stream of charged particles released from the upper atmosphere of the Sun, called the corona.

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Tanegashima Space Center

The (TNSC) is a Japanese space development facility.

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The Planetary Society

The Planetary Society is an American internationally active, non-governmental, nonprofit foundation.

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Usuda Deep Space Center

Usuda Deep Space Center is a facility of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency It is a spacecraft tracking station opened in October, 1984.

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Venus

Venus is the second planet from the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days.

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Yoshinobu Launch Complex

The Yoshinobu Launch Complex, also known as Launch Area Y, Area Y or LA-Y, is a launch complex at the Tanegashima Space Centre, located on Tanegashima, the Japanese island located 115 km south of Kyūshū.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKAROS

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