Abstracts for fall meeting of the Japanese Society for Planetary Science
Abstracts 2007 Fall meeting of the Japanese Society for Planetary Sciences
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Oral Session 9: KAGUYA (SELENE) Mission
Sep. 27, 10:50-12:18
Exploration of lunar gravity and topography by Kaguya (SELENE)
*Sho Sasaki, Noriyuki Namiki, Hideo Hanada, Hiroshi Araki, Takahiro Iwata, Nobuyuki Kawano, Koji Matsumoto, Hirotomo Noda, Seiitsu Tsuruta, Kazuyohi Asari, Seiichi Tazawa, Toshiaki Ishikawa, Fuyuhiko Kikuchi, Qinghui Liu, Sander Goossens, Yoshiaki Ishihara, Tsuneya Tsubokawa, Tadashi Takano
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KAGUYA (SELENE) is a Japanese lunar mission which will be launched using H-IIA vehicle in September 2007 by JAXA. We are planning to improve lunar gravity field model by four-way Doppler measurements and differential VLBI observations using three orbiters of KAGUYA (SELENE) mission. KAGUYA is composed of the main orbiter and two small free-flyer subsatellites, i.e., the Relay Satellite (Rstar) and the VLBI Radio Satellite (Vstar). Each subsatellite weighs approximately 50kg.
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