Abstract
PLANET-C (PLC) is the mission of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) for Venus exploration. It is a successor of HAYABUSA in the history of Japanese deep space missions and is expected to be the first Japanese planetary orbiter. The spacecraft will be launched in the summer of 2010 from Tanegashima Space Center. The mission has demanded new onboard telecommunication instruments. Among them are X-band digital transponder, high gain flat antenna, and low gain wider field of view antenna. Through their developments, new technologies such as deep space regenerative ranging adapted for JAXA ground stations have been successfully incorporated into the PLC system. They are now raedy for their first space-borne demonstration. We will discuss these telecommunication technologies newly introduced for the PLC mission.
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