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JAXA DESTINY+ Mission with Tomoko Arai | On Things to Come

07,09, 2021

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On Things to Come Webinar

JAXA DESTINY+ Mission

Speaker: Tomoko Arai (Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan)

Wednesday, 14 July 2021

4 pm GMT+8

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DESTINY+ (Demonstration and Experiment of Space Technology for INterplanetary voYage with Phaethon fLyby and dUst Science) was selected in 2017 as a mission for JAXA/ISAS small class program. It will be launched in 2024 by an Epsilon S rocket and fly by an asteroid (3200) Phaethon in January 2028. It is a joint mission of technology demonstration and scientific observation. Engineering challenges include an up-close encounter at a distance of 500 km from Phaethon with radio-optical hybrid navigation guidance and control and autonomous imaging based on optical information for target tracking during a high-speed flyby of about 35km/sec. The science goal is to understand the nature and origin of cosmic dust particles brought onto the Earth and their parent bodies. Phaethon is a parent body of the Geminid meteor shower. The science objectives are two folded: (1) in situ analyses of velocity, arrival direction, mass and chemical composition of interplanetary and interstellar dust particles around 1 au, the dust trail, and nearby Phaethon, and (2) flyby imaging of Phaethon to study its geology, for understanding dust ejection mechanism of an active asteroid and the surface feature and composition which are affected by extensive solar heating. Science payloads include a panchromatic, telescopic camera with a tracking capability (TCAP), a visible-NIR multi-band camera (MCAP), and a dust analyzer (DDA), which is an upgrade version of Cassini Cosmic Dust Analyzer (CDA). While the two cameras are developed by PERC/Chitech, DDA is developed by Univ. of Stuttgart, as an international collaboration with DLR. An international observation campaign for Phaethon was conducted in December 2017 and that for stellar occultation by Phaethon was performed in 2019, to better characterize Phaethon. Here, we present the current status and science of DESTINY+.

About Tomoko Arai

Dr. Tomoko Arai is a Principal Staff Scientist of Planetary Exploration Research Center (PERC) at Chiba Institute of Technology (ChiTech), Japan. She is currently serving as the Principal Investigator of JAXA’s DESTINY+ mission. Her research areas include mineralogy, petrology, geochemistry, and reflectance spectroscopy of lunar and planetary materials. After receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1998, she joined JAXA working for the development of the International Space Station (ISS) and their science payloads and later the Kaguya (SELENE) lunar mission. She moved to the National Institute of Polar Research as a postdoctoral researcher in 2004 and The University Museum, The University of Tokyo in 2009. She joined PERC, Chitech in 2009 and has been there since then. She led the ISS METEOR project, which conducted meteor observation on board the ISS from 2016 to 2019. She participated in ANSMET, the Antarctic Search for Meteorites in the 2012-2013 field season. Asteroid 22106 Tomokoarai (2000 NC12) was named in her honor.

Schedule

23 September 2020 4 pm (GMT+8)	Geraint Jones – ESA Comet Interceptor Mission [YouTube/Youku]
21 October 2020 8 pm (GMT+8)	Ralph Lorenz – NASA Dragonfly Mission [YouTube/Youku]
4 November 2020 4 pm (GMT+8)	Wang Chi – ESA SMILE Mission [YouTube/Youku]
25 November 2020 4 pm (GMT+8)	Heike Rauer – ESA PLATO Mission [YouTube/Youku]
9 December 2020 4 pm (GMT+8)	Takehiko Satoh – JAXA Akatsuki Mission [YouTube/Bilibili]
18 December 2020 4 pm (GMT+8)	Olivier Witasse – ESA JUICE Mission [YouTube/Bilibili]
21 December 2020 4 pm (GMT+8)	Tomohiro Usui – JAXA MMX Mission [YouTube/Bilibili]
13 January 2021 4 pm (GMT+8)	Weiqun Gan – CAS ASO-S Mission [YouTube/Bilibili]
27 January 2021 4 pm (GMT+8)	Giovanna Tinetti – ESA Ariel Mission [YouTube/Bilibili]
24 February 2021 4 pm (GMT+8)	Johannes Benkhoff – ESA BepiColombo Mission I [YouTube/Bilibili]
10 March 2021 4 pm (GMT+8)	Gabriele Cremonese – ESA BepiColombo Mission II [YouTube/Bilibili]
24 March 2021 4 pm (GMT+8)	Go Murakami – ESA BepiColombo Mission III [YouTube/Bilibili]
7 April 2021 4 pm (GMT+8)	Yoshifumi Saito – ESA BepiColombo Mission IV [YouTube/Bilibili]
14 April 2021 4 pm (GMT+8)	Daniel Mueller – ESA Solar Orbiter Mission I [YouTube/Bilibili]
21 April 2021 4 pm (GMT+8)	Stefano Vitale – ESA LISA Mission [YouTube/Bilibili]
6 May 2021 9 am (GMT+8)	Andy Cheng – NASA DART Mission [YouTube/Bilibili]
12 May 2021 9 am (GMT+8)	Robert Pappalardo – NASA Europa Clipper [YouTube/Bilibili]
19 May 2021 4 pm (GMT+8)	Saem Krucker – ESA Solar Orbiter Mission II Watch
25 May 2021 4 pm (GMT+8)	Sami Solanki – ESA Solar Orbiter Mission III Watch
2 June 2021 4 pm (GMT+8)	Athena Coustenis – ESA's ExoMars Missions Watch
9 June 2021 4 pm (GMT+8)	Yuan Weimin – CAS Einstein Probe Mission Watch
16 June 2021 10 am (GMT+8)	Evgenya Shkolnik – NASA SPARCS Mission Watch
30 June 2021 4 pm (GMT+8)	Ren Laurelijs – ESA EUCLID Mission Watch
7 July 2021 4 pm (GMT+8)	ZHAN Hu – CMS Chinese Space Station Telescope Attend
14 July 2021 4 pm (GMT+8)	Tomoko Arai – JAXA DESTINY+ Mission
21 July 2021 4 pm (GMT+8)	Micheal K ppers – ESA HERA Mission
25 August 2021 4 pm (GMT+8)	HE Huaiyu – CAS Chang'e 5 Mission
1 September 2021 4 pm (GMT+8)	ZHANG Shuangnan – CAS HXMT Mission
9 Sept. 2021 10 am (GMT+8)	Lindy Elkins-Tanton – NASA Psyche Mission
15 Sept. 2021 4 pm (GMT+8)	LIN Honglei – CAS Tianwen-1
22 Sept. 2021 9 am (GMT+8)	Hal Levison – NASA Lucy Mission
29 Sept. 2021 9 am (GMT+8)	Ralph McNutt – NASA Interstellar Probe

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