IWATA Takahiro, MAEJIMA Hironori, YONEKURA Katsuhide, NAMIKI Noriyuki, HANADA Hideo, IMAMURA Takeshi, NODA Hirotomo, ASARI Kazuyoshi, YAMAMOTO Zenichi, TANAKA Koji, IIJIMA Yuichi, TAKANO Tadashi
IEICE technical report, Apr 14, 2011, The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
Selenological and Engineering Explorer is composed of a lunar orbiter 'Kaguya', and two small sub-satellites: Relay Satellite 'Okina' and VRAD Satellite 'Ouna'. It was launched in September 2007, and operated until June 2009. Ground stations for their operations were GN stations of JAXA, Usuda Deep Space Center (UDSC), and foreign stations. Among them, 64m antenna of UDSC executed the downlink of mission data from Kaguya, and the first experiments of 4-way Doppler measurements of lunar orbiter relayed by Okina. We report about the outline of these operations, and the new technology to achieve the 4-way relay link.