2022.09.09
Our contribution to the EQUULEUS spacecraft was featured in the news of the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences.
2022.09.08
The archived video of Assistant Professor Sekine's lecture at the 11th Symposium on Deep Space Exploration Science is now available.
2022.05.16
Mizuki Noguchi won the 2021 Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences Student Award.
2022.04.10
At the 61st Aero Engine and Space Propulsion Conference, Dr. Rei KAWASHIMA (Assistant Prof.) and Ayuto MANABE received the Young Scientist Best Presentation Award and the Student Best Presentation Award, respectively.
 1:Rei KAWASHIMA and Kimiya KOMURASAKI(Univ.Tokyo)
"ホールスラスタ性能予測へ向けた勾配ドリフト不安定性の数値シミュレーション" 
 2:Ayuto MANABE, Kuniyoshi TABATA, Yoshiki TAKASE, Kimiya KOMURASAKI and Rei KAWASHIMA(Univ.Tokyo)
"マイクロ波ロケットのマルチパルス運転の2次元解析"
2022.04.01
Koizumi Laboratory's research activities were introduced in the 39th issue of "SOSEI," the PR magazine of the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences.
2022.03.03
A paper by Dr.Sekine(Assistant Prof.) et al. has been published in Journal of Applied Physics.
H. Sekine, R. Minematsu, Y. Ataka, P. Ominetti, H. Koizumi, and K. Komurasaki, "Experimental characterization of non-Maxwellian electron energy distributions in a miniaturized microwave plasma neutralizer, " J. Appl. Phys. 131, 093302 (2022)
2021.11.09
The following poster received the Student Excellence Award at the 65th Space Sciences and Technology Conference.
1: Shu KAWABATA,Satpathy DIBYESH,Rei KAWASHIMA,Kimiya KOMURASAKI and Hiroyuki KOIZUMI
"二重振り子式スラストスタンドで高出力推進機推力を測定する際の温度均一板の効果" 
2: Daigo TAKASAKI,Kento SHIRASU,Hokuto SEKINE,Aoma FUJIMORI,Hiroyuki KOIZUMI,渡邊裕樹, Yuichi NAKAGAWA(Pale Blue),Rei KAWASHIMA and Kimiya KOMURASAKI
"耐腐食性を有する推進剤不要LaB6熱電子カソードの設計と初期作動"
2021.11.09
Notice of Year-End Party has been posted.
2021.06.14
Kuniyoshi TABATA et al.'s paper was selected for the 19th Applied Plasma Science Society Paper Award.
Kuniyoshi Tabata, Kimiya Komurasaki(Univ.Tokyo), 假家強 and 南龍太郎(Univ.Tsukuba)
"発光分光によるミリ波放電プラズマの振動・回転温度計測"
2021.03.22.
Hokuto SEKINE received the 2020 Dean's Award of the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences (Doctoral Student).
2021.01.06
A paper by Hokuto SEKINE et al. has been selected as a featured AIP Advances.
Hokuto SEKINE, Hiroyuki KOIZUMI, and Kimiya KOMURASAKI
"Measurement and identification of azimuthal current in an RF plasma thruster employing a time-varying magnetic field"
2020.07.18
The paper by Junhwi Bak et al. has been selected as an Editor's pick in the Journal of Applied Physics.
Junhwi BAK, Bastiaan VAN LOO, Rei KAWASHIMA, and Kimiya KOMURASAKI
"Discharge characteristics and increased electron current during azimuthally nonuniform propellant supply in an anode layer Hall thruster"
2020.06.26.
The following presentation received the Outstanding Student Award at the 2019 Space Transportation Symposium.
Sota IZAWA, Keita NISHII, Kosei KIKUCHI, Hiroyuki KOIZUMI and Kimiya KOMURASAKI
"電子ビーム励起によるマイクロノズル下流における中性粒子の相対密度分布測定"
2019.11.13.
The following poster received the Student Excellence Award at the 63rd Space Science and Technology Conference, the following poster received the Student Excellence Award.
Yasuho ATAKA, Yuichi NAKAGAWA, Yuki NAITO, 元木嵩人, Hiroyuki KOIZUMI and Kimiya KOMURASAKI
"1W級マイクロ波放電式水電子源の内部電位分布が電子輸送に及ぼす影響"
2019.09.11.
Kuniyoshi TABATA was interviewed. 「未来の起源」 の放送予定は下記のとおりです。
9月15日(日)22:54~@TBS(関東地域 愛知 三重 岐阜)
9月22日(日)20:54~@BS-TBS(全国放送)
2019.09.11.
The 5th Space Solar Power Systems Symposium(Click) will be held on November 21-22, 2019, at the Hongo Campus, Engineering Building 2. OS about space plane, reusable rockets, laser atmospheric transmission, and more, as well as a lecture by Naoko Yamazaki will be scheduled.
2019.08.08.
The following poster received the Student Poster Award, Second Place at the 33rd Annual Conference on Small Satellites.
Keita Nishii, Hiroyuki Koizumi, Jun Asakawa, Akihiro Hattori, Kosei Kikuchi, Mariko Akiyama, Qihang Wang, Masaya Murohara
"Pre-flight Testing of AQUARIUS: the Water Resistojet Thruster on the SLS EM-1 CubeSat for Deep Space Exploration"
2019.06.25.
At the 32nd ISTS, the following lecture received the Japanese Rocket Society Award.
Yasuho ATAKA, Yuichi NAKAGAWA, Hiroyuki KOIZUMI, Kimiya KOMURASAKI
"Performance Evaluation of a 100 µN-Class Water Ion Thruster using Neodymium Magnets"
2019.03.25.
Yusuke Nakamura received the Dean's Award (Doctoral Student), Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, 2018.
2019.03.25.
Seiya TANAKA received the Dean's Award (Master), Graduate School of Engineering and Graduate School of Engineering, 2018.
2018.11.16
The following poster received a Poster Award at the 2nd Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics (AAPPS-DPP 2018).
Junhwi BAK, Rei KAWASHIMA, Bastiaan VAN LOO, Kimiya KOMURASAKI and Hiroyuki KOIZUMI
"Investigation of Electron Cross-field Transport in Hall Thrusters with Inhomogeneity of Plasma Density and Potential in Azimuth"
2018.11.01
Notice of 2018 Year-End Party has been posted.
2018.10.25
The following poster received the Student Excellence Award at the 62nd Space Science and Technology Union Conference.
Seiya TANAKA, Shin YAMADA, Kimiya KOMURASAKI, Hiroyuki KOIZUMI and Rei KAWASHIMA
"レゴリスからのアルミニウムおよび酸素の獲得を目指したCWレーザーアブレーションによるアルミナ還元"
2018.04.18
The following lecture received the Best Presentation Award at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences.
Keita NISHII, Jun ASAKAWA, 山崎朋征, Hiroyuki KOIZUMI and Kimiya KOMURASAKI
"超小型水スラスタの推進剤供給システムにおける常温下での液滴蒸発挙動とその熱評価"