抄録
The purposes and performance characteristics of various experiments installed on Engineering Test Satellite-V (ETS-V) are described. The primary experiment is a mobile communication payload named “Aeronautical & Maritime Communication Experiment”(AMEX) consisting of L-band and C-band channels, to provide communication links for aircrafts and ships. In addition, several fundamental bus technology experiments such as RAM soft error monitor, solar cell degradation monitor and solar array vibration damping monitor are provided as “Technical Data Acquisition Equipment” (TEDA). Most of bus subsystems design have been derived from recent R&D activities sponsored by NASDA, and the operation of these subsystems is also the major experiment to verify the equipment performances to be used as the standard bus for spacecrafts planned in coming 10 years. It is anticipated that ETS-V will play the role of frontier for Japanese 3-axis controlled large geostationary communication satellites technology development.
