Solar System Exploration Roadmap toward 2025 at JAXA
- Paper number
IAC-07-A3.2.04
- Author
Dr. Junichiro Kawaguchi, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)/ISAS, Japan
- Coauthor
Dr. Makoto Yoshikawa, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Japan
- Coauthor
Dr. Masato Nakamura, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)/ISAS, Japan
- Coauthor
Mr. Kohtaro Matsumoto, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (IAT/JAXA), Japan
- Year
2007
- Abstract
JAXA established the new department in charge of the Exploration including not only the Moon but also the Solar System bodies. JAXA started and triggered the Near Earth Object (NEO) missions by having put the world's first Sample and Return mission, Hayabusa in 2003. Following the Hayabusa, JAXA is currently under intensive study to perform the follow-on mission to C-type asteroid in 2010, and also a larger version mission toward more primitive destinations in late 2010s. Those missions will be performed favaorbly with international partners and JAXA started the talks with them. JAXA will put PLANET-C mission to Venus and also MMO spacecraft in BepiColombo mission to the Mercury in 2010 and 2013 respectively. JAXA also will expand the sphere of the exploration activuty to the solar system at large, such as the Mars and Jupiter in 2010s. The paper will describe the study results of the solar system exploration roadmap at JAXA.
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