Profile Information
- Affiliation
- Professor, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration AgencyProfessor, The Graduate School of Engineering Department of Chemical System Engineering, The University of TokyoYokohama National UniversitySagami Women's University
- Degree
- 博士(工学)(東京大学)
- J-GLOBAL ID
- 200901019157833600
- researchmap Member ID
- 5000019460
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Research Interests
12Research Areas
2Research History
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Apr, 2024 - Present
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Apr, 2023 - Present
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Apr, 2023 - Present
Education
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10Major Papers
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Science and technology of energetic materials : Journal of the Japan Explosives Society, 73(5) 147-152, Dec 31, 2012 Peer-reviewedLead authorThe neutral wind in ionosphere region has been the target on the earth environmental research. Chemical tracer releases represent the most widely used technique for in situ neutral wind measurements. The wind velocity is measured optically from the ground and lithium vapor is generally employed as the tracer. The science payload for the research is required that lithium is converted from a solid phase into vapor which is injected into the space throughout the sounding rocket experiment The payload therefore should be loaded with thermite as the heat source for vaporizing lithium. Thermite is known as a powder mixture of a metal and a metal oxide without binder that undergoes the redox reaction with high heat energy release. That is why thermite is selected as the chemical heat source for the payload. The rocket-borne Lithium Ejection System (LES) is a chemical release device that has been developed for the Japanese space research program.The ignition and combustion characteristics of thermite were studied to develop the device. Thermite usually consists of iron oxide and aluminum and burns comparable to explosives. Therefore the combustion properties for the device should be improved. This paper will discuss the composition and the reaction properties of thermite. Finally, the design of the device was confirmed by the full scale ground test
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AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY JAPAN, THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES, 9 15-21, 2010 Peer-reviewedLead authorThe educational hybrid-rocket was successfully launched and it also landed within the predicted area. Aerodynamic characteristics of the rocket designed by students of Tsukuba University were evaluated by the wind tunnel testing with the support of Tokai University. The flight path affected by the environmental condition, especially wind direction and velocity, was simulated with the original calculation program. The altitude of the rocket was measured with the optical equipment and the apex was 123 m although the calculation indicated 198 m. We expected that the insufficient filling or the volatilization of Nitrous oxide as an oxidizer led to this result. And then, the apex was verified with a function of the oxidizer filling ratio. The results showed that 81.2 % of the oxidizer volume in comparison with the firing test condition was accumulated in the tank at the launch.
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Science and technology of energetic materials, 67(6) 187-192, Dec 31, 2006 Peer-reviewedLead author
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Journal of the Japan Explosives Society, 60(2) 83-90, Apr 30, 1999 Peer-reviewedLead author
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熱測定討論会講演要旨集(CD-ROM), 60th, 2024
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火薬学会春季研究発表会講演要旨集(CD-ROM), 2024, 2024
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宇宙航空研究開発機構研究開発報告 JAXA-RR-(Web), (23-005), 2024
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宇宙航空研究開発機構研究開発報告 JAXA-RR-(Web), (22-006), 2023
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火薬学会春季研究発表会講演要旨集(CD-ROM), 2023, 2023
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火薬学会春季研究発表会講演要旨集(CD-ROM), 2023, 2023
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火薬学会春季研究発表会講演要旨集(CD-ROM), 2023, 2023
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火薬学会秋季研究発表講演会講演要旨集, 2023, 2023
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火薬学会秋季研究発表講演会講演要旨集, 2023, 2023
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火薬学会秋季研究発表講演会講演要旨集, 2023, 2023
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火薬学会秋季研究発表講演会講演要旨集, 2023, 2023
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日本大学生産工学部学術講演会講演概要(CD-ROM), 56th, 2023
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宇宙航空研究開発機構研究開発報告 JAXA-RR-(Web), (22-006), 2023
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日本航空宇宙学会誌 = Aeronautical and space sciences Japan, 70(11) 224-233, Nov, 2022
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宇宙航空研究開発機構研究開発報告 JAXA-RR-(Web), (21-002), 2022
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火薬学会春季研究発表会講演要旨集(CD-ROM), 2022, 2022
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宇宙科学技術連合講演会講演集(CD-ROM), 66th, 2022
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火薬学会秋季研究発表講演会講演要旨集, 2022, 2022
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宇宙航空研究開発機構研究開発報告 JAXA-RR-(Web), (21-002), 2022
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宇宙航空研究開発機構研究開発報告 JAXA-RR-(Web), (20-007), 2021
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宇宙航空研究開発機構研究開発報告 JAXA-RR-(Web), (20-008), 2021
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宇宙航空研究開発機構研究開発報告 JAXA-RR-(Web), (20-008), 2021
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宇宙航空研究開発機構研究開発報告 JAXA-RR-(Web), (20-007), 2021
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宇宙航空研究開発機構研究開発報告 JAXA-RR-(Web), (20-007), 2021
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宇宙航空研究開発機構研究開発報告 JAXA-RR-(Web), (20-007), 2021
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宇宙航空研究開発機構研究開発報告 JAXA-RR-(Web), (19-003), 2020
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宇宙航空研究開発機構研究開発報告 JAXA-RR-(Web), (19-003), 2020
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宇宙航空研究開発機構研究開発報告 JAXA-RR-(Web), (19-003), 2020
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宇宙航空研究開発機構研究開発報告 JAXA-RR-(Web), (19-003), 2020
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宇宙航空研究開発機構研究開発報告 JAXA-RR-(Web), (19-003), 2020
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日本航空宇宙学会誌, 68(2) 32-37, 2020
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観測ロケットシンポジウム2019 講演集 = Proceedings of Sounding Rocket Symposium 2019, Aug, 2019第2回観測ロケットシンポジウム(2019年8月5日-6日. 宇宙航空研究開発機構宇宙科学研究所(JAXA)(ISAS)), 相模原市, 神奈川県 2nd Sounding Rocket Symposium (August 5-6, 2019. Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)(ISAS)), Sagamihara, Kanagawa Japan 著者人数: 11名 資料番号: SA6000142022 レポート番号: Ⅶ-1
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観測ロケットシンポジウム2019 講演集 = Proceedings of Sounding Rocket Symposium 2019, Aug, 2019第2回観測ロケットシンポジウム(2019年8月5日-6日. 宇宙航空研究開発機構宇宙科学研究所(JAXA)(ISAS)), 相模原市, 神奈川県 2nd Sounding Rocket Symposium (August 5-6, 2019. Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)(ISAS)), Sagamihara, Kanagawa Japan 著者人数: 26名 資料番号: SA6000142023 レポート番号: Ⅶ-2
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観測ロケットシンポジウム2019 講演集 = Proceedings of Sounding Rocket Symposium 2019, Aug, 2019第2回観測ロケットシンポジウム(2019年8月5日-6日. 宇宙航空研究開発機構宇宙科学研究所(JAXA)(ISAS)), 相模原市, 神奈川県 2nd Sounding Rocket Symposium (August 5-6, 2019. Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)(ISAS)), Sagamihara, Kanagawa Japan 著者人数: 17名 設計製造協力: NETS, 山本機械設計 資料番号: SA6000142024 レポート番号: Ⅷ-1
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宇宙航空研究開発機構研究開発報告 JAXA-RR-(Web), (18-006) 45‐48 (WEB ONLY), 2019
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Thermal and evolved gas analyses of ammonium dinitramide-based ionic propellant using TG-DSC-HRTOFMS宇宙航空研究開発機構研究開発報告 JAXA-RR-(Web), (18-006) 17‐23 (WEB ONLY), 2019
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宇宙航空研究開発機構研究開発報告 JAXA-RR-(Web), (18-006) 33‐39 (WEB ONLY), 2019
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宇宙航空研究開発機構研究開発報告 JAXA-RR-(Web), (18-006) 25‐31 (WEB ONLY), 2019
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宇宙航空研究開発機構研究開発報告 JAXA-RR-(Web), (18-006) 11‐16 (WEB ONLY), 2019
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宇宙航空研究開発機構研究開発報告 JAXA-RR-(Web), (18-006) 1‐9 (WEB ONLY), 2019
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宇宙航空研究開発機構研究開発報告 JAXA-RR-(Web), (18-006) 41‐44 (WEB ONLY), 2019
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Advances in the Astronautical Sciences, 166 265-276, 2018© 2018 Univelt Inc. All rights reserved. On February 3, 2018 at the JAXA Uchinoura Space Center, JAXA experimented SS-520 No. 5 launch with a 3U sized cube sat called TRICOM-1R aboard. After liftoff, flight of SS-520 No. 5 proceeded normally. Around 7 minutes 30 seconds into flight, TRICOM-1R separated and was inserted into its target orbit. And the launcher became the world’s smallest class satellite launcher. SS-520 launch vehicle is one of sounding rockets operated in JAXA/ISAS, and originally two-stage rocket. In this experiment, to make this vehicle put a satellite into orbit, the third stage motor is added. And this sounding rocket has four tail fins for spin stabilization, but usually don’t have an attitude control system during the flight. But in this mission, it is needed to control its attitude to ignite second and third motor toward horizontal after first stage burn-out. The gas jet system is installed into between the first stage and the second stage of the vehicle as a unique active attitude control system. The gas jet system can control the spin axis direction and the spin rate of the vehicle during the coasting fight. Because of this constraint, the apogee altitude after the burn out of the first stage motor almost correspond with the perigee altitude of the elliptical orbit. In this mission, the sounding rocket-based Nano launcher is planned to put TRICOM-1R into the elliptical orbit. Its targeted apogee altitude is about 1,800 km and its perigee altitude is about 180 km. Because the perigee altitude is relatively low, the orbit life is very short. One of the mission requirements is to make the vehicle an orbit insertion with more than 30 days orbital lifetime. The vehicle error or the environment error deeply affect the achieved trajectory. These errors must be small enough to put TRICOM-1R into orbit. This paper discusses about the trajectory design on how to manage the sounding rocket into a satellite launching vehicle, the effect of the orbital distribution depending on the various errors, the flight safety analysis, and finally flight performance evaluation.
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宇宙航空研究開発機構研究開発報告 JAXA-RR-(Web), (17-008) 1‐6 (WEB ONLY), 2018
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宇宙航空研究開発機構研究開発報告 JAXA-RR-(Web), (17-008) 61‐65 (WEB ONLY), 2018
Presentations
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火薬学会春季研究発表会講演要旨集, 2021
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Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, SII 2020, Jan, 2020© 2020 IEEE. In recent years, expectations for low-cost and high-frequency rocket launches for space exploration have increased. Solid fuel rockets are small, inexpensive, and easy to handle. However, in the production of solid fuel, the mixing process and the transportation process are separate batch processes, leading to an increase in maintenance costs and disposal costs. In addition, being a manual process, it is difficult to manufacture large amounts simultaneously in a safe method. The authors have developed a mixing and transportation device that simulates the movement of the intestinal tract by using an elastic duct and a low pneumatic drive. In addition, actual fuel production has been carried out in a mixing and transporting experiment using this device. The effectiveness of this device has been exhibited from the combustion test of the produced fuel. In this paper, we present a high-quality and efficient method of mixing and transporting solid propellant material. This is a mixing of solid and liquid achieved by peristaltic movement done in real-time by adjusting the mixing degree of the mixture inside the device. The degree of mixing is determined by the solid propellant's volume and viscosity change. Therefore, we first investigate whether the content volume can be detected when the rigid bodies with different volumes are inserted. Next, we focus on the change in the viscosity of the mixture that occurs during the mixing process. We also examine the viscosity of the contents when fluids having different viscosities are inserted.
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AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum, 2020© 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, AIAA. All rights reserved. Low toxicity ionic liquid monopropellant thrusters, such as hydroxylammonium-nitrate-based and ammonium-dinitramide-based monopropellant thruster, have been continuously developed and researched as replacement for conventional hydrazine thrusters. In this study, for the attitude and orbit control thruster of spacecraft, a chemical plasma space propulsion with ammonium dinitramide based ionic liquid has been proposed. The ignition systems have been used the discharge plasma of arc or non-equilibrium, and the generation methods of discharge plasma have been researched for decomposition and combustion of ionic liquid monopropellant. This paper presents the results of open-cup firing tests with discharge plasma for an ionic liquid monopropellant. This liquid monopropellant is a eutectic mixture of ammonium dinitramide, monomethylamine nitrate, and urea. In addition, the effects of ambient pressure on the characteristics of electric and ignition were evaluated. As a result, the breakdown and ignition of the ionic liquid were confirmed under sea-level condition and vacuum condition. After breakdown and ignition, exhaust flame was observed from downstream of reaction system at sea-level condition. In a range of ambient pressure from 10 Pa to 30 Pa, the plasma plume of decomposition gas was observed. In addition, at the each condition, the pulse discharge of unsteady state was observed from discharge waveforms after breakdown of the ionic liquid.
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日本機械学会ロボティクス・メカトロニクス講演会講演論文集(CD-ROM), 2020
Teaching Experience
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宇宙推進燃料工学 (東京大学工学系研究科化学システム工学専攻)
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エネルギー物質化学特論 (東京大学工学系研究科化学システム工学専攻)
Works
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Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Nov, 2023 - Mar, 2030
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Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2023 - Mar, 2028
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Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Specially Promoted Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2019 - Mar, 2024
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Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2015 - Mar, 2017
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Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2012 - Mar, 2017