Abstract
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) develops a small demonstrator of solar power sail orbiter to demonstrate solar sail technology that utilizes photons from the sun for continuous acceleration and electrical power generation by thin flexible solar arrays. We proceed with "Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation Of the Sun (IKAROS)" project, which planed to be launched in the summer of 2010. In this paper, we introduce the spread mechanism of solar power sail, and result of various tests or experiments of a proto-type model of IKAROS mission mechanism.
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