S1910104 小型月周回サンプルリターンプローブ構想

Abstract

Small satellites made by universities and small private companies are getting main streams in Japanese and global space developments. Some universities in Japan now have excellent potential and actually realized many fruitful outcome. Meanwhile reentry vehicles in Japan are not vigorous as before ceasing HOPE-X project. Researchers for heat resistant materials have little chances to experience flight demonstrating. Japan can conduct such flight demonstration as test beds with small satellites. Scan Tuttle in UNSW in Australia and Kei-ichi Okuyama have the same idea and now we started corroborative activities for small satellite and reentry vehicles, as well as sample return probe as a university-led activity. We first put the mission object on the lunar return probe which is eventually recovered on ground in the extensive land of Woomera in central Australia.