@inproceedings{oai:jaxa.repo.nii.ac.jp:00005915,
 author = {船木, 一幸 and 山川, 宏 and 磁気プラズマセイル研究会 and Funaki, Ikko and Yamakawa, Hiroshi and MPS Research Group},
 book = {宇宙航空研究開発機構特別資料: 宇宙航空研究開発機構　情報・計算工学センター　衛星環境プラズマ数値シミュレーションワークショップ報告書, JAXA Special Publication: JAXA/JEDI Workshop on Numerical Plasma Simulation for Spacecraft Environment},
 month = {Feb},
 note = {A quick review of plasma sail propulsion is provided to close up the technical and physical issues of plasma sail. A spacecraft propulsion system utilizing the energy of the solar wind was firstly proposed by Prof. Winglee in 2000. Although Winglee proposed an M2P2 (Mini-Magnetospheric Plasma-Propulsion) design with a small (20-cm-diamter) coil and a small helicon plasma source, it was criticized by Dr. Khazanov in 2003. He insisted that: (1) MHD (Magnetohydrodynamic) is not an appropriate approximation to describe M2P2 design by Winglee, and with ion kinetic simulation, it was shown that the M2P2 design could provide only negligible thrust; (2) considerably larger sails (than that Winglee proposed) would be required to tap the energy of the solar wind. We started our study in 2003, and it is shown that moderately sized magnetic sails can produce sub-Newton-class thrust in the ion inertial scale (approximately 70 km). We continue our efforts to make a feasibly sized plasma sail (Magnetoplasma Sail) by optimizing the magnetic field inflation process Winglee proposed. However, several physical issues (action and reaction force of the MPS, finite Larmor radius effect in the far region of the MPS, and so on) were shown to remain to be solved before we proceed to a system design of a spacecraft propelled by MPS., 資料番号: AA0063157008, レポート番号: JAXA-SP-06-014},
 pages = {100--110},
 publisher = {宇宙航空研究開発機構, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)},
 title = {Research of Magnetoplasma Sail (MPS): A quick review},
 volume = {JAXA-SP-06-014},
 year = {2007}
}