Associate for Education and Public Outreach

Shintaro Nakajima

  (中島 晋太郎)

Profile Information

Affiliation
Specially Appointed Assistant Professor, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Department of Interdisciplinary Space Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

Researcher number
80873380
J-GLOBAL ID
202001017783214748
researchmap Member ID
R000000751

Awards

 5

Papers

 14
  • Geraint H. Jones, Colin Snodgrass, Cecilia Tubiana, Michael Küppers, Hideyo Kawakita, Luisa M. Lara, Jessica Agarwal, Nicolas André, Nicholas Attree, Uli Auster, Stefano Bagnulo, Michele Bannister, Arnaud Beth, Neil Bowles, Andrew Coates, Luigi Colangeli, Carlos Corral van Damme, Vania Da Deppo, Johan De Keyser, Vincenzo Della Corte, Niklas Edberg, Mohamed Ramy El-Maarry, Sara Faggi, Marco Fulle, Ryu Funase, Marina Galand, Charlotte Goetz, Olivier Groussin, Aurélie Guilbert-Lepoutre, Pierre Henri, Satoshi Kasahara, Akos Kereszturi, Mark Kidger, Matthew Knight, Rosita Kokotanekova, Ivana Kolmasova, Konrad Kossacki, Ekkehard Kührt, Yuna Kwon, Fiorangela La Forgia, Anny-Chantal Levasseur-Regourd, Manuela Lippi, Andrea Longobardo, Raphael Marschall, Marek Morawski, Olga Muñoz, Antti Näsilä, Hans Nilsson, Cyrielle Opitom, Mihkel Pajusalu, Antoine Pommerol, Lubomir Prech, Nicola Rando, Francesco Ratti, Hanna Rothkaehl, Alessandra Rotundi, Martin Rubin, Naoya Sakatani, Joan Pau Sánchez, Cyril Simon Wedlund, Anamarija Stankov, Nicolas Thomas, Imre Toth, Geronimo Villanueva, Jean-Baptiste Vincent, Martin Volwerk, Peter Wurz, Arno Wielders, Kazuo Yoshioka, Konrad Aleksiejuk, Fernando Alvarez, Carine Amoros, Shahid Aslam, Barbara Atamaniuk, Jędrzej Baran, Tomasz Barciński, Thomas Beck, Thomas Behnke, Martin Berglund, Ivano Bertini, Marcin Bieda, Piotr Binczyk, Martin-Diego Busch, Andrei Cacovean, Maria Teresa Capria, Chris Carr, José María Castro Marín, Matteo Ceriotti, Paolo Chioetto, Agata Chuchra-Konrad, Lorenzo Cocola, Fabrice Colin, Chiaki Crews, Victoria Cripps, Emanuele Cupido, Alberto Dassatti, Björn J. R. Davidsson, Thierry De Roche, Jan Deca, Simone Del Togno, Frederik Dhooghe, Kerri Donaldson Hanna, Anders Eriksson, Andrey Fedorov, Estela Fernández-Valenzuela, Stefano Ferretti, Johan Floriot, Fabio Frassetto, Jesper Fredriksson, Philippe Garnier, Dorota Gaweł, Vincent Génot, Thomas Gerber, Karl-Heinz Glassmeier, Mikael Granvik, Benjamin Grison, Herbert Gunell, Tedjani Hachemi, Christian Hagen, Rajkumar Hajra, Yuki Harada, Johann Hasiba, Nico Haslebacher, Miguel Luis Herranz De La Revilla, Daniel Hestroffer, Tilak Hewagama, Carrie Holt, Stubbe Hviid, Iaroslav Iakubivskyi, Laura Inno, Patrick Irwin, Stavro Ivanovski, Jiri Jansky, Irmgard Jernej, Harald Jeszenszky, Jaime Jimenéz, Laurent Jorda, Mihkel Kama, Shingo Kameda, Michael S. P. Kelley, Kamil Klepacki, Tomáš Kohout, Hirotsugu Kojima, Tomasz Kowalski, Masaki Kuwabara, Michal Ladno, Gunter Laky, Helmut Lammer, Radek Lan, Benoit Lavraud, Monica Lazzarin, Olivier Le Duff, Qiu-Mei Lee, Cezary Lesniak, Zoe Lewis, Zhong-Yi Lin, Tim Lister, Stephen Lowry, Werner Magnes, Johannes Markkanen, Ignacio Martinez Navajas, Zita Martins, Ayako Matsuoka, Barbara Matyjasiak, Christian Mazelle, Elena Mazzotta Epifani, Mirko Meier, Harald Michaelis, Marco Micheli, Alessandra Migliorini, Aude-Lyse Millet, Fernando Moreno, Stefano Mottola, Bruno Moutounaick, Karri Muinonen, Daniel R. Müller, Go Murakami, Naofumi Murata, Kamil Myszka, Shintaro Nakajima, Zoltan Nemeth, Artiom Nikolajev, Simone Nordera, Dan Ohlsson, Aire Olesk, Harald Ottacher, Naoya Ozaki, Christophe Oziol, Manish Patel, Aditya Savio Paul, Antti Penttilä, Claudio Pernechele, Joakim Peterson, Enrico Petraglio, Alice Maria Piccirillo, Ferdinand Plaschke, Szymon Polak, Frank Postberg, Herman Proosa, Silvia Protopapa, Walter Puccio, Sylvain Ranvier, Sean Raymond, Ingo Richter, Martin Rieder, Roberto Rigamonti, Irene Ruiz Rodriguez, Ondrej Santolik, Takahiro Sasaki, Rolf Schrödter, Katherine Shirley, Andris Slavinskis, Balint Sodor, Jan Soucek, Peter Stephenson, Linus Stöckli, Paweł Szewczyk, Gabor Troznai, Ludek Uhlir, Naoto Usami, Aris Valavanoglou, Jakub Vaverka, Wei Wang, Xiao-Dong Wang, Gaëtan Wattieaux, Martin Wieser, Sebastian Wolf, Hajime Yano, Ichiro Yoshikawa, Vladimir Zakharov, Tomasz Zawistowski, Paola Zuppella, Giovanna Rinaldi, Hantao Ji
    Space Science Reviews, 220(1), Jan 24, 2024  
    Abstract Here we describe the novel, multi-point Comet Interceptor mission. It is dedicated to the exploration of a little-processed long-period comet, possibly entering the inner Solar System for the first time, or to encounter an interstellar object originating at another star. The objectives of the mission are to address the following questions: What are the surface composition, shape, morphology, and structure of the target object? What is the composition of the gas and dust in the coma, its connection to the nucleus, and the nature of its interaction with the solar wind? The mission was proposed to the European Space Agency in 2018, and formally adopted by the agency in June 2022, for launch in 2029 together with the Ariel mission. Comet Interceptor will take advantage of the opportunity presented by ESA’s F-Class call for fast, flexible, low-cost missions to which it was proposed. The call required a launch to a halo orbit around the Sun-Earth L2 point. The mission can take advantage of this placement to wait for the discovery of a suitable comet reachable with its minimum $\varDelta $V capability of $600\text{ ms}^{-1}$. Comet Interceptor will be unique in encountering and studying, at a nominal closest approach distance of 1000 km, a comet that represents a near-pristine sample of material from the formation of the Solar System. It will also add a capability that no previous cometary mission has had, which is to deploy two sub-probes – B1, provided by the Japanese space agency, JAXA, and B2 – that will follow different trajectories through the coma. While the main probe passes at a nominal 1000 km distance, probes B1 and B2 will follow different chords through the coma at distances of 850 km and 400 km, respectively. The result will be unique, simultaneous, spatially resolved information of the 3-dimensional properties of the target comet and its interaction with the space environment. We present the mission’s science background leading to these objectives, as well as an overview of the scientific instruments, mission design, and schedule.
  • Hokuto SEKINE, Yasuho ATAKA, Isamu MORIAI, Aoma FUJIMORI, Mariko AKIYAMA, Masaya MUROHARA, Hiroyuki KOIZUMI, Kota KAKIHARA, Kento SHIRASU, Daigo TAKASAKI, Ryo MINEMATSU, Masayuki MATSUURA, Ten ARAI, Yuto TSUCHIYA, Naoto AIZAWA, Mizuki NOGUCHI, Shuhei MATSUSHITA, Toshihiro SHIBUKAWA, Kazuki TOMA, Kazuki TAKASHIMA, Kosuke OGINO, Yuki KUSANO, Shintaro NAKAJIMA, Ryota FUSE, Kota MIYOSHI, Akihiro ISHIKAWA, Yosuke KAWABATA, Tomoki MOCHIZUKI, Takuya CHIKAZAWA, Ryu FUNASE
    TRANSACTIONS OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES, 67(5) 274-284, 2024  Peer-reviewed
  • Yuichiro Ezoe, Ryu Funase, Harunori Nagata, Yoshizumi Miyoshi, Hiroshi Nakajima, Ikuyuki Mitsuishi, Kumi Ishikawa, Masaki Numazawa, Yosuke Kawabata, Shintaro Nakajima, Ryota Fuse, Ralf C. Boden, Landon Kamps, Tomokage Yoneyama, Kouichi Hagino, Yosuke Matsumoto, Keisuke Hosokawa, Satoshi Kasahara, Junko Hiraga, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Masaki Fujimoto, Munetaka Ueno, Atsushi Yamazaki, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Takefumi Mitani, Yasuhiro Kawakatsu, Takahiro Iwata, Hiroyuki Koizumi, Hironori Sahara, Yoshiaki Kanamori, Kohei Morishita, Daiki Ishi, Aoto Fukushima, Ayata Inagaki, Yoko Ueda, Hiromi Morishita, Yukine Tsuji, Runa Sekiguchi, Takatoshi Murakawa, Kazuma Yamaguchi, Rei Ishikawa, Daiki Morimoto, Yudai Yamada, Shota Hirai, Yuki Nobuhara, Yownin Albert M. Leung, Yamato Itoigawa, Ryo Onodera, Satoru Kotaki, Shotaro Nakamura, Ayumi Kiuchi, Takuya Matsumoto, Midori Hirota, Kazuto Kashiwakura
    Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 9(03), Sep 12, 2023  
  • Tatsuaki Hashimoto, Junji Kikuchi, Ryo Hirasawa, Kota Miyoshi, Wataru Torii, Naoki Morishita, Nobutaka Bando, Atsushi Tomiki, Shintaro Nakajima, Masatsugu Otsuki, Hiroyuki Toyota, Kakeru Tokunaga, Chikako Hirose, Tetsuo Yoshimitsu, Hiroshi Takeuchi
    Proceedings of the International Astronautical Congress, IAC, 2023-October, 2023  
    A 6U CubeSat “OMOTENASHI” was developed to be the world's smallest moon lander. It was launched by NASA's SLS Artemis-1 on November 16, 2022. However, because of the spacecraft anomaly, the battery was depleted and the communication with the spacecraft had been lost. After we gave up the moon landing experiment, we have been conducting a search and rescue operation till September 2023. But it was unsuccessful, unfortunately. In this article, the mission objective, the spacecraft design, the planed mission scenario, and the in-orbit operation results are presented. Additionally, lessons learned from the development and the in-orbit operation are presented.
  • Yuichiro Ezoe, Ryu Funase, Harunori Nagata, Yoshizumi Miyoshi, Hiroshi Nakajima, Ikuyuki Mitsuishi, Kumi Ishikawa, Yosuke Kawabata, Shintaro Nakajima, Landon Kamps, Masaki Numazawa, Tomokage Yoneyama, Kouichi Hagino, Yosuke Matsumoto, Keisuke Hosokawa, Satoshi Kasahara, Junko Hiraga, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Masaki Fujimoto, Munetaka Ueno, Atsushi Yamazaki, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Takefumi Mitani, Yasuhiro Kawakatsu, Takahiro Iwata, Hiroyuki Koizumi, Hironori Sahara, Yoshiaki Kanamori, Kohei Morishita
    SPACE TELESCOPES AND INSTRUMENTATION 2022: ULTRAVIOLET TO GAMMA RAY, 12181, 2022  
    GEO-X (GEOspace X-ray imager) is a small satellite mission aiming at visualization of the Earth's magnetosphere by X-rays and revealing dynamical couplings between solar wind and magnetosphere. In-situ spacecraft have revealed various phenomena in the magnetosphere. In recent years, X-ray astronomy satellite observations discovered soft X-ray emission originated from the magnetosphere. We therefore develop GEO-X by integrating innovative technologies of the wide FOV X-ray instrument and the microsatellite technology for deep space exploration. GEO-X is a 50 kg class microsatellite carrying a novel compact X-ray imaging spectrometer payload. The microsatellite having a large delta v (>700 m/s) to increase an altitude at 40-60 R-E from relatively low-altitude (e.g., Geo Transfer Orbit) piggyback launch is necessary. We thus combine a 18U Cubesat with the hybrid kick motor composed of liquid N2O and polyethylene. We also develop a wide FOV (5x5 deg) and a good spatial resolution (10 arcmin) X-ray (0.3-2 keV) imager. We utilize a micromachined X-ray telescope, and a CMOS detector system with an optical blocking filter. We aim to launch the satellite around the 25th solar maximum.

Misc.

 27
  • 江副祐一郎, 船瀬龍, 船瀬龍, 永田晴紀, 三好由純, 中嶋大, 三石郁之, 布施綾太, 川端洋輔, BODEN Ralf C., 中島晋太郎, KAMPS Landon, 信原佑樹, 平井翔太, 石川久美, 沼澤正樹, 佐藤佑樹, 萩野浩一, 松本洋介, 細川敬祐, 伊師大貴, 米山友景, 上野宗孝, 山崎敦, 長谷川洋, 三田信, 三谷烈史, 藤本正樹, 川勝康弘, 岩田隆浩, 満田和久, 平賀純子, 笠原慧, 小泉宏之, 佐原宏典, 金森義明, 森下浩平
    日本天文学会年会講演予稿集, 2024, 2024  
  • 三好航太, 菊池隼仁, 池永敏憲, 中島晋太郎, 森下直樹, 石川晃寛, 船瀬龍, 船瀬龍, 橋本樹明
    宇宙科学技術連合講演会講演集(CD-ROM), 67th, 2023  
  • NISHIMOTO Shingo, TAKAHASHI Ryohei, NAKAJIMA Shintaro, FUNASE Ryu, NAKASUKA Shinichi
    Journal of Evolving Space Activities, 1 n/a, 2023  Peer-reviewed
    The low reliability of nano-satellites has become a problem, with the cause often being defects in the design and manufacturing process. It is required to take sufficient measures to account for those defects through ground tests to reduce on-orbit failures. The model-based fault diagnosis method can prevent oversight of fault candidates and compensate for a lack of knowledge in human-based diagnosis. Since the developing time of nano-satellites is limited, fault diagnosis needs to be carried out efficiently also while being careful not to cause secondary faults. This paper presents a novel method that can find the appropriate command to verify candidates of fault location in a satellite. The proposed method can consider the side effect of a command and the efficiency of narrowing them down by using the information transmission path model. In the case study, the proposed method is applied to an earth-orbiting 6U CubeSat, and this case study reveals that 33% of the failures that occur in ground tests can apply to the proposed method. In addition, the proposed method can identify the fault location of some of these failures, although there are several limitations to implementing the proposed method in the actual satellite development.
  • 布施綾太, BODEN Ralf, 中島晋太郎, 川端洋輔, 松下将典, 秋山茉莉子, 船瀬龍, 船瀬龍, 江副祐一郎, KAMPS Landon, 永田晴紀, 鈴木聡宏, NERY Vinicius, 伊藤湧太郎, 筒井真輝, 望月友貴, 小川巧海, 荻野浩佑, 草野湧貴, 下村俊介, 瀬戸翔一, 中村陸希
    宇宙科学技術連合講演会講演集(CD-ROM), 67th, 2023  
  • 兵頭龍樹, 船瀬龍, 矢野創, 尾崎直哉, 中島晋太郎
    日本惑星科学会秋季講演会予稿集(Web), 2023, 2023  

Presentations

 73

Research Projects

 2