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The JAXA Electric Propulsion Laboratory (EP Lab) primarily focuses on the R&D of electric propulsion technologies and related plasma diagnostics techniques. Thrusters developed at the EP lab have been deployed in a wide variety of space missions, such as the Space Flyer Unit, and the asteroid sample returners “Hayabusa,” and “Hayabusa2”. The EP lab will continue to support future deep space missions, for instance, the asteroid probe “DESTINY+” and the Trojan asteroid probe “OKEANOS.” Research at the EP Lab is supported by the JAXA manufacturing and experimental facilities, which allows the lab to simultaneously take on multiple projects. Graduate students from the University of Tokyo and other selected institutes are involved in all of the EP Lab research, including the development of thrusters for deep space missions and its related physics.
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