★ November 21, 2023, 09:00 am (UTC+8)
Speaker: Prof. Shinichiro Sakai (The Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), JAXA. / Japan)
Title: Small luna lander “SLIM” for the pinpoint landing
Small luna lander “SLIM” for the pinpoint landing
Prof. Shinichiro Sakai
Shinichiro Sakai received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1995, 1997 and 2000, respectively. He joined The Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) in 2001, became an associate professor in 2005, and has been a professor since 2019. His research fields are the spacecraft guidance, navigation and control issues and electro-magnetic formation flying. He also participated to the attitude control system design and development for several scientific satellites, such as REIMEI (launched in 2005), ASTRO-G, HISAKI (2013) and ARASE(2016). From 2016, he is also a project manager of JAXA’s small lunar lander “SLIM” for pin-point landing demonstration. He is a member of the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences, and the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan.
