Hokkaido Aerospace Science and Technology Incubation Center
Hokkaido Aerospace Science and Technology Incubation Center
Hokkaido Aerospace Science and Technology Incubation Center
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
Hokkaido University
出版者
宇宙航空研究開発機構宇宙科学研究本部
出版者(英)
Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA/ISAS)
雑誌名
宇宙利用シンポジウム 第21回 平成16年度
雑誌名(英)
Space Utilization Research: Proceedings of the Twenty-first Space Utilization Symposium
ページ
1 - 4
発行年
2005-03
抄録(英)
For promoting the wide use of inexpensive zero-g facilities, a new device is developed based on the yoyo principle. The yoyo motion of a capsule enables to produce its successive rise and drop motion that create the reduced g environment inside the capsule. For the first step of its development, an indoor sized model was manufactured for the educational purposes. Its reduced g ranges the lunar and planetary surface g levels, worthy of its name Ez-Space. Further improvements are promising on its operational characteristics, such as the larger in its physical size of experiment volume and the higher g quality approaching to zero-g.