Performance of Akatsuki/IR2 in Venus orbit: the first year

Abstract The first year (December 2015 to November 2016) of IR2 after Akatsuki’s successful insertion to an elongated elliptical orbit around Venus is reported with performance evaluation and results of data acquisition. The single-stage Stirling-cycle cryo-cooler of IR2 has been operated with vario...

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Published in:Earth, Planets and Space
Main Authors: Takehiko Satoh, Takao M. Sato, Masato Nakamura, Yasumasa Kasaba, Munetaka Ueno, Makoto Suzuki, George L. Hashimoto, Takeshi Horinouchi, Takeshi Imamura, Atsushi Yamazaki, Takayuki Enomoto, Yuri Sakurai, Kosuke Takami, Kenta Sawai, Takashi Nakakushi, Takumi Abe, Nobuaki Ishii, Chikako Hirose, Naru Hirata, Manabu Yamada, Shin-ya Murakami, Yukio Yamamoto, Tetsuya Fukuhara, Kazunori Ogohara, Hiroki Ando, Ko-ichiro Sugiyama, Hiroki Kashimura, Shoko Ohtsuki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-11-01
Subjects:
Venus
Atmosphere
Orbiter
Akatsuki
Near-infrared
Window
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40623-017-0736-x

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