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Some large-scale structures are tested by Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) within several months.<br /><br /><br /><font color="orange"><b>S-310-36 Experiments</b></font><br /><br /><b>Launch: 22nd/Jan/2006 13:00 (JST)</b><br /><br />Mother-Daughter satellites will be launched into suborbital using S-310 rocket No.36 for the following experiments.<br /><br /> 1.Net deployment using daughter satellites<br /><br /> Three daughter satellites are ejected from the mother satellite using repulsive force of springs. Then daughter satellites extract folded net moving toward to their home position. The net is 20m triangle. The net dynamics will be measured using satellites sensors and cameras. <br />ISSL Mission<br /><br /> 2.Forming an active phased array antenna using mother-daughter satellites<br /><br /> Each satellite equips with a micro wave transmitter. These transmitter form a phased array antenna by controlling their phase using pilot signal from a ground station. The characteristics of this antenna will be obtained. Kaya Laboratory, KOBE University mission <br /><br /> 3.Relative Attitude Control<br /><br /> Daughter satellites control their position and attitude to maintain the net shape using camera image, range sensor and INS. They also keep net tension for robot crawling. <br />ISSL advanced mission<br /><br /> 4.Spider type robots are crawling on the net<br /><br /> Small robots(1kg) get around on the net. ESA and NASA each prepare their robot. <br />ESA,NASA advanced mission<br /><br /><br />These techniques are aimed to apply to the following in the future. <br /><br /> 1.Large solar power plant <br /> 2.Large antenna <br /> 3.Radiator <br /> 4.Debris removal <br /><br />http://www.space.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/s310/index-e.html<br /><br />Flash report page for the launch<br /><br />http://www.esa.int/esaCP</safety_wrapper <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>-----------------------------------------------</p><p>I HOPE that a space budget grows more.<br /><img id="13d0b3c4-c5bc-4a2d-ad5c-33562f04976a" src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/Content/images/store/3/13/13d0b3c4-c5bc-4a2d-ad5c-33562f04976a.Large.gif" alt="blog post photo" /> </p><div><br /> </div> </div>