著者

雛田 元紀 稲谷 芳文 伊地智 幸一 牧野 隆 松田 聖路

出版者

宇宙航空研究開発機構

雑誌

宇宙航空研究開発機構研究開発報告 (ISSN:13491113)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.4, pp.1-11, 2005-03

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The Unmanned Space Experiment Recovery System (USERS) was launched on September 10th, 2002 from Tanegashima Space Center with the H-IIA launch vehicle. On May 30th 2003, the re-entry and recovery operations were successfully conducted, bringing experiment samples and beneficial information back to Earth. USERS became the first national project to succeed in recovery from orbit. In this paper, USERS mission outline is introduced first. Followed by are discussion on the key characteristics of Reentry Module (REM), result of design and development, evaluation of re-entry and recovery operation and flight data. Finally, the obtained reentry system technologies through this project are summarized.