Kazuo Mizukoshi

TL;DR: The Superconducting Submillimeter-Wave Limb-Emission Sounder (SMILES) was successfully launched and attached to the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) on the International Space Station (ISS) on 25 September 2009 as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the results of the ground tests and in-orbit performance measurements are described and compared in this paper, and the authors found that the inorbit performance is fully satisfy the specifications and SMILES data has sufficient quality for atmospheric science study.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employed a near-field phase retrieval method in which the aperture phase distribution was estimated only from the amplitude distribution measurements over two near field planes, and compared with theoretical calculations based on physical optics, where the surface errors measured for the main and sub reflectors were taken into account.

TL;DR: This communication describes the results of the measurements made for the flight model of the offset Cassegrain antenna of superconducting submillimeter-wave limb-emission sounder (SMILES) aboard the International Space Station, and finds that patterns of machined flaws on the surface of the main reflector were clearly identified in the retrieved near-field phase pattern.

TL;DR: In this paper, a phase-retrieval method is applied to the quasi-optical feed system of the offset Cassegrain antenna of the Superconducting Submillimeter-Wave Limb-Emission Sounder (JEM/SMILES) to evaluate the beam alignment by estimating the phase pattern from the beam amplitude pattern measurements.