Special Feature: Re-Entry of HAYABUSA Spacecraft

(Vol.63, No.5, 2011)

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Expedition for a Ground-Based Observation of HAYABUSA Spacecraft Re-Entry

J. Watanabe, T. Ohkawa, M. Sato, K. Ohnishi, Y. Iijima, Y. Kagaya, and T. Tanabe

Publ. Astron. Soc. Japan 63, pp.941-946 (2011)

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Trajectory of HAYABUSA Reentry Determined from Multisite TV Observations

M. Ueda, Y. Shiba, M.-Y. Yamamoto, K. Fujita, J. Watanabe, M. Sato, S. Abe, Y. Kakinami, S. Uehara, S. Okamoto, Y. Fujiwara, and Y. Tanabe

Publ. Astron. Soc. Japan 63, pp.947-953 (2011)

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Fragmentation of the HAYABUSA Spacecraft on Re-Entry

J. Watanabe, T. Ohkawa, M. Sato, K. Ohnishi, and Y. Iijima

Publ. Astron. Soc. Japan 63, pp.955-960 (2011)

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An Overview of JAXA's Ground-Observation Activities for HAYABUSA Reentry

K. Fujita, M.-Y. Yamamoto, S. Abe, Y. Ishihara, O. Iiyama, Y. Kakinami, Y. Hiramatsu, M. Furumoto, H. Takayanagi, T. Suzuki, T. Yanagisawa, H. Kurosaki, M. Shoemaker, M. Ueda, Y. Shiba, and M. Suzuki

Publ. Astron. Soc. Japan 63, pp.961-969 (2011)

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Detection of Acoustic/Infrasonic/Seismic Waves Generated by Hypersonic Re-Entry of the HAYABUSA Capsule and Fragmented Parts of the Spacecraft

M.-Y. Yamamoto, Y. Ishihara, Y. Hiramatsu, K. Kitamura, M. Ueda, Y. Shiba, M. Furumoto, and K. Fujita

Publ. Astron. Soc. Japan 63, pp.971-978 (2011)

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Entry Dispersion Analysis for the HAYABUSA Spacecraft using Ground-Based Optical Observation

T. Yamaguchi, M. Yoshikawa, M. Yagi, and D. J. Tholen

Publ. Astron. Soc. Japan 63, pp.979-985 (2011)

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Spectroscopic Observation of the Re-Entry Capsule of HAYABUSA Spacecraft

K. Ohnishi, J. Watanabe, M. Sato, T. Ohkawa, and N. Ebizuka

Publ. Astron. Soc. Japan 63, pp.987-993 (2011)

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Experimental Search for the HAYABUSA Re-Entry Module on the Ground by Using a Remote-Sensing Instrument onboard Formosat-2 Satellite

R. Nakamura, B. Chen, M. Matsuoka, H. Yamamoto, A. Kamei, K. Nakamura, and H. Yano

Publ. Astron. Soc. Japan 63, pp.995-1001 (2011)

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Photographic and Radiometric Observations of the HAYABUSA Re-Entry

J. Borovicka, S. Abe, L. Shrbený, P. Spurný, and P. A. Bland

Publ. Astron. Soc. Japan 63, pp.1003-1009 (2011)

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Near-Ultraviolet and Visible Spectroscopy of HAYABUSA Spacecraft Re-Entry

S. Abe, K. Fujita, Y. Kakinami, O. Iiyama, H. Kurosaki, M. A. Shoemaker, Y. Shiba, M. Ueda, and M. Suzuki

Publ. Astron. Soc. Japan 63, pp.1011-1021 (2011)

[Abstract], [HTML], [PDF(4349kb)], [PS.gz(9520kb)]