MUSES-C, Its launch and early orbit operations

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

doi:10.1016/j.actaastro.2005.07.002

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 9th of this year and was named 'Hayabusa'. It was aimed to be 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 on board. 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)	669-678
Number of pages	10
Journal	Acta Astronautica
Volume	59
Issue number	8-11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2005.07.002
Publication status	Published - Oct 2006
Externally published	Yes

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