Abstract
What exactly constitutes a technological breakthrough? A breakthrough is an event that opens unexpected doors and expands horizons. Since JAXA's IKAROS is the first solar-photon sail deployed in interplanetary space and has demonstrated the sail's utility in both primary spacecraft propulsion and attitude control, it certainly constitutes a technological breakthrough. Moreover, it is certainly deserving of a chapter in this book! To capture some of the drama of this milestone mission, we consider various mission phases in chronological order. We remind the reader that IKAROS stands for Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation Of the Sun.
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Vulpetti, G., Johnson, L., & Matloff, G. L. (2015). The JAXA IKAROS Mission as a Technological Breakthrough. In Solar Sails (pp. 165–171). Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0941-4_15
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