MUSES-C, its launch and early orbit operations

Jun'ichiro Kawaguchi; Hitoshi Kuninaka; Akira Fujiwara; Tono Uesugi

MUSES-C, its launch and early orbit operations

Jun'ichiro Kawaguchi^*, Hitoshi Kuninaka, Akira Fujiwara, Tono Uesugi

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	25-32
Number of pages	8
Journal	European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP
Issue number	542
Publication status	Published - Nov 2003
Externally published	Yes
Event	Proceedings of the 5th IAA International Conference on Low-Cost Planetary Missions - Noordwijk, Netherlands Duration: 24 Sept 2003 → 26 Sept 2003

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