Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Institute of Space Technology and Aeronautics
Institute for Unmanned Space Experiment Free Flyer
出版者
宇宙航空研究開発機構
出版者(英)
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
雑誌名
宇宙航空研究開発機構研究開発報告: USERS REVカプセルの開発研究および飛行後解析
雑誌名(英)
JAXA Research and Development Report: Research and Development of USERS REV Capsule and its Post-flight Analysis
巻
JAXA-RR-04-045
ページ
113 - 126
発行年
2005-03-31
抄録(英)
Normally, reentry bodies, even if they are to be recovered, are not equipped with onboard instruments such as transponders, which are useful for real-time position monitoring of the reentry bodies during the flight. This is because the surrounding plasma generated by the aerodynamic heating makes the transponder positioning nonsense as the blackout phenomena. If the trajectory during the reentry phase could be known, even if it's not monitored in real-time, the information will be a great help for the rapid recovery. The radiation from the highly-heated reentry body during the aerodynamic heating has enough intense radiation in visible region for the detection on the ground. This paper investigates a method of optical capturing of the reentry bodies by means of the visible radiation from the bodies during the aerodynamic heating. And a result of the optical tracking actually carried out on the occasion of the reentry of the REV capsule is also presented.