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AN: P44A-01 [Abstracts]
TI: Launch of the SELENE(Kaguya) Mission and their Science Goals
AU: * Kato, M
EM: kato@planeta.sci.isas.jaxa.jp
AF: JAXA/ISAS, Yoshinodai 3-1-1, Sagamihara, 2298510, Japan
AU: Takizawa, Y
EM: takizawa.yoshisada@jaxa.jp
AF: JAXA/ISAS, Yoshinodai 3-1-1, Sagamihara, 2298510, Japan
AU: Sasaki, S
EM: sasaki@isas.jaxa.jp
AF: JAXA/ISAS, Yoshinodai 3-1-1, Sagamihara, 2298510, Japan
AB:
Implementation of Lunar orbiting satellite SELENE(Kaguya) has completed after final integration tests of thermal-
vacuum and electromagnetic compatibility in the end of February 2007. Through pre-shipping reviews the satellite
was carried to JAXA Tanegashima Space Center. The SELENE(Kaguya) is just being launched in September
2007. The mission has started in 1999 FY as a joint project of ISAS and NASDA, which have been merged into a
space agency JAXA in October 2003. The SELENE certainly identified as a JAXAfs science mission is operated
from the newly installed SOAC (SELENE Operation and data Analysis Center) of Sagamihara/JAXA. The SELENE
will be inserted into lunar orbit three weeks after launch using phasing orbit turning around Earth-Moon system.
The main satellite will settle into a circular polar orbit with 100km altitude after releasing two sub-satellites in
about 40 days after launch. After deploying magnetometer mast and a pair of sounder antenna, initial checks of
scientific instruments will be carried for two months. Key questions on lunar science are gWhatfs origin of the
Moon?h, gHow does the Moon have evolved?h, and gWhat history does the lunar environment have
passed?h Science topics to be studied by using fourteen science instruments are surface composition of
chemistry and mineralogy, evolution tectonics of surface including subsurface to 5 km depth, gravity field of whole
moon and magnetic field distribution for the study on origin and evolution of the Moon. Lunar environment are
investigated in observing charged and neutral particles impinged on the surface. High definition TV cameras are
also onboard the SELENE for public outreach.
UR: http://www.selene.jaxa.jp
DE: 1026 Composition of the moon
DE: 1160 Planetary and lunar geochronology
DE: 1200 GEODESY AND GRAVITY
DE: 5400 PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS
DE: 6250 Moon (1221)
SC: Planetary Sciences [P]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting