Nozomi (spacecraft)

*Nozomi*
	Artist's concept of Nozomi orbiter at Mars
Names	PLANET-B
Mission type	Mars orbiter
Operator	JAXA
COSPAR ID	1998-041A
SATCAT no.	25383
Website	isas.jaxa.jp
Mission duration	5 years, 5 months and 6 days
Spacecraft properties
Manufacturer	ISAS
Launch mass	540 kg (1,190 lb)
Dry mass	225 kg (496 lb)
Payload mass	33 kg (73 lb)
Dimensions	1.6 × 1.6 × 0.58 m (5.2 × 5.2 × 1.9 ft)
Start of mission
Launch date	July 3, 1998, 18:12:00 UTC
Rocket	M-V
Launch site	Uchinoura Space Center
End of mission
Disposal	Decommissioned
Deactivated	December 31, 2003
Last contact	December 9, 2003
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Heliocentric
Transponders
Frequency	X-band: 8410.93 MHz; S-band: 2293.89 MHz
	PLANET series ← Suisei Akatsuki →

Nozomi (Japanese: のぞみ, lit. "Wish" or "Hope", and known before launch as Planet-B) was a Japanese Mars orbiter that failed to reach Mars due to electrical failure. It was constructed by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, University of Tokyo and launched on July 4, 1998, at 03:12 JST (July 3, 1998, at 18:12 UTC) with an on-orbit dry mass of 258 kg and 282 kg of propellant.^{[citation needed]} The Nozomi mission was terminated on December 31, 2003.^{[citation needed]}

Nozomi was designed to study the upper Martian atmosphere and its interaction with the solar wind and to develop technologies for use in future planetary missions. Specifically, instruments on the spacecraft were to measure the structure, composition and dynamics of the ionosphere, aeronomy effects of the solar wind, the escape of atmospheric constituents, the intrinsic magnetic field, the penetration of the solar-wind magnetic field, the structure of the magnetosphere, and dust in the upper atmosphere and in orbit around Mars. The mission would have also returned images of Mars' surface.^{[citation needed]}

Mission profile

Launch

After launch on the third M-V launch vehicle, Nozomi was put into an elliptical geocentric parking orbit with a perigee of 340 km and an apogee of 400,000 km.^{[citation needed]}

Lunar swing-bys

The spacecraft used a lunar swingby on September 24, 1998, and another on December 18, 1998, to increase the apogee of its orbit.^[2]

Earth swing-by

It flew by Earth on December 20, 1998, at a perigee of about 1000 km. The gravitational assist from the flyby coupled with a 7 minute burn of the bipropellant rocket put Nozomi into an escape trajectory towards Mars. It was scheduled to arrive at Mars on October 11, 1999, at 7:45:14 UT, but a malfunctioning valve during the Earth swingby resulted in a loss of fuel and left the spacecraft with insufficient acceleration to reach its planned trajectory. Two course correction burns on December 21 used more propellant than planned, leaving the spacecraft short of fuel.^[2]

New mission plan

The new plan was for Nozomi to remain in heliocentric orbit for an additional four years, including two Earth flybys in December 2002 and June 2003, and encounter Mars at a slower relative velocity in December 2003, or January 1, 2004.^[2]

First Earth flyby

On April 21, 2002, as Nozomi was approaching Earth for the gravity assist maneuver, powerful solar flares damaged the spacecraft's onboard communications and power systems. An electrical short occurred in a power cell used to control the attitude control heating system, allowing the hydrazine fuel to freeze. The fuel thawed out as the craft approached Earth and maneuvers to put the craft on the correct trajectory for its Earth flyby were successful.^{[citation needed]}

Second Earth flyby

Another Earth flyby within 11,000 km occurred on June 19, 2003. The fuel had completely thawed out for this maneuver because of the spacecraft's proximity to the Sun. However, on December 9, 2003, efforts to orient the craft to prepare it for a December 14, 2003, main thruster orbital insertion burn failed^{[clarification needed]}, and efforts to save the mission were abandoned. The small thrusters were fired on December 9, moving the closest approach distance to 1,000 km so that the probe would not inadvertently impact on Mars and possibly contaminate the planet with Earth bacteria, since the orbiter had not been intended to land and was therefore not properly sterilized.^{[citation needed]}

Mars flyby

The spacecraft flew by Mars on December 14, 2003, and went into a roughly 2-year heliocentric orbit.^{[citation needed]}

Intended Mars mission

Nozomi was to be inserted into a highly eccentric Mars orbit with a periareion 300 km above the surface, an apoareion of 15 Mars radii, and an inclination of 170 degrees with respect to the ecliptic plane. Shortly after insertion, the mast and antennas were to be deployed. The periareion would have been lowered to 150 km, the orbital period to about 38.5 hours. The spacecraft was to be spin stabilized at 7.5 rpm with its spin axis (and the dish antenna) pointed towards Earth. The periapsis portion of the orbit would have allowed in-situ measurements of the thermosphere and lower exosphere and remote sensing of the lower atmosphere and surface. The more distant parts of the orbit would be for study of the ions and neutral gas escaping from Mars and their interactions with the solar wind. The nominal mission was planned for one Martian year (approximately two Earth years). An extended mission might have allowed operation of the mission for three to five years. The spacecraft was also to point its cameras at the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos.^{[citation needed]}

Spacecraft and subsystems

The Nozomi orbiter was a 0.58 meter high, 1.6 meter square prism with truncated corners. Extending out from two opposite sides were solar panel wings containing silicon solar cells which provide power to the spacecraft directly or via NiMH (nickel metal hydride) batteries. On the top surface was a dish antenna, and a propulsion unit protrudes from the bottom. A 5 m deployable mast and a 1 m boom extended from the sides, along with two pairs of thin wire antennas which measure 50 m tip to tip. Other instruments were also arranged along the sides of the spacecraft. Spacecraft communications were via X-band at 8410.93 MHz and S-band at 2293.89 MHz.

The 14 instruments carried on Nozomi were an imaging camera, neutral mass spectrometer, dust counter, thermal plasma analyzer, magnetometer, electron and ion spectrum analyzers, ion mass spectrograph, high energy particles experiment, VUV imaging spectrometer, sounder and plasma wave detector, LF wave analyzer, electron temperature probe, and a UV scanner. The total mass budgeted for the science instruments was 33 kg. Radio science experiments were also possible using the existing radio equipment and an ultrastable oscillator.^{[citation needed]}

The total mass of Nozomi at launch, including 282 kg of propellant, was 540 kg.^[2]

Canada provided a $5 million thermal plasma analyzer.^[3] This was the Canadian Space Agency's first participation in an interplanetary mission.^[4] (Previously, the National Research Council of Canada provided the High Flux Telescope (HFT) for the Ulysses interplanetary mission.^[5])

Scientific instruments

The spacecraft carried 14 scientific instruments to conduct scientific observations of Mars. They were^[6]^[7]^[8]

Mars Imaging Camera
Magnetic Field Measurement (MGF)
Probe for Electron Temperature (PET)
Electron Spectrum Analyzer (ESA)
Ion Spectrum Analyzer (ISA)
Electron and Ion Spectrometer (EIS)
Extra Ultraviolet Scanner (XUV)
Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer (UVS)
Plasma Wave and Sounder (PWS)
Low Frequency Plasma Wave Analyzer (LFA)
Ion Mass Imager (IMI)
Mars Dust Counter (MDC)
Neutral Mass Spectrometer (NMS)
Thermal Plasma Analyzer (TPA)^{[citation needed]}

Scientific results

Nozomi transmitted useful data on measurement of Lyman-alpha light during the course of conducting various scientific observations in interplanetary space.^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Nozomi". NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive. Retrieved December 1, 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ON THE LUNAR AND HELIOCENTRIC GRAVITY ASSIST EXPERIENCED IN THE PLANET-B (“NOZOMI”)
^ "Japan abandons Mars mission". The Globe and Mail. Canadian Press. December 9, 2003. Retrieved March 24, 2016. The failure of Nozomi represents a $5-million loss for Canada.
^ "Canadian Probe Launched to Mars" (Press release). Canadian Space Agency. July 3, 1998. Archived from the original on December 2, 1998.
^ "Welcome to the HIA Ulysses Project". Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics. Archived from the original on August 17, 2011. The Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics (HIA) of the National Research Council of Canada provided instrumentation and test equipment for the COsmic ray and Solar Particle INvestigation (COSPIN) on the Ulysses spacecraft. The COSPIN instrument consists of five sensors which measure energetic nucleons and electrons over a wide range of energies. This was the first participation by Canada in a deep-space interplanetary mission.
^ ^a ^b "NOZOMI | Spacecraft". ISAS. Retrieved January 2, 2019.
^ "In Depth | Nozomi". Solar System Exploration: NASA Science. Retrieved January 2, 2019.
^ "Deep Space Chronicle: A Chronology of Deep Space and Planetary Probes 1958-2000". Solar System Exploration: NASA Science. Retrieved January 2, 2019.

External links

[nssdc1-1] "Nozomi". NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive. Retrieved December 1, 2022.

[JIK-2] ON THE LUNAR AND HELIOCENTRIC GRAVITY ASSIST EXPERIENCED IN THE PLANET-B (“NOZOMI”)

[3] "Japan abandons Mars mission". The Globe and Mail. Canadian Press. December 9, 2003. Retrieved March 24, 2016. The failure of Nozomi represents a $5-million loss for Canada.

[4] "Canadian Probe Launched to Mars" (Press release). Canadian Space Agency. July 3, 1998. Archived from the original on December 2, 1998.

[5] "Welcome to the HIA Ulysses Project". Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics. Archived from the original on August 17, 2011. The Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics (HIA) of the National Research Council of Canada provided instrumentation and test equipment for the COsmic ray and Solar Particle INvestigation (COSPIN) on the Ulysses spacecraft. The COSPIN instrument consists of five sensors which measure energetic nucleons and electrons over a wide range of energies. This was the first participation by Canada in a deep-space interplanetary mission.

[:0-6] "NOZOMI | Spacecraft". ISAS. Retrieved January 2, 2019.

[7] "In Depth | Nozomi". Solar System Exploration: NASA Science. Retrieved January 2, 2019.

[8] "Deep Space Chronicle: A Chronology of Deep Space and Planetary Probes 1958-2000". Solar System Exploration: NASA Science. Retrieved January 2, 2019.

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Nozomi (spacecraft)

Mission profile

Launch

Lunar swing-bys

Earth swing-by

New mission plan

First Earth flyby

Second Earth flyby

Mars flyby

Intended Mars mission

Spacecraft and subsystems

Scientific instruments

Scientific results

See also

References

External links

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