The Second Young Engineers' Satellite: Innovative Technology through Education

Hironori A. FUJII; Michiel KRUIJFF; Erik J. van der HEIDE; Takeo WATANABE

doi:10.2322/tastj.8.Tg_11

TRANSACTIONS OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES, AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY JAPAN

Online ISSN : 1884-0485
ISSN-L : 1884-0485

g) Space Transportation

The Second Young Engineers' Satellite: Innovative Technology through Education

Hironori A. FUJII ^†, Michiel KRUIJFF, Erik J. van der HEIDE ^†, Takeo WATANABE

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Keywords: Space Elevator, Space Tether Technology, YES2

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2010 Volume 8 Issue ists27 Pages Tg_11-Tg_17

DOI https://doi.org/10.2322/tastj.8.Tg_11

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The second Young Engineers' Satellite,YES2, is the longest manmade structure launched in 2007 and is space piggybacked on the Foton-M3 microgravity platform with the objective of a controlled deployment of a 32km tether. This paper introduces the object and the flight results of YES2 and the performance of the satellite is studied in comparison of the simulations and ground tests with respect to the flight results.

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