US 12,325,539 B2
Exploration method, exploration system, space probe, hydrogen supply method, and image processing method
Takeshi Hakamada, Tokyo (JP); Takahiro Nakamura, Tokyo (JP); John Walker, Tokyo (JP); Toshiro Shimizu, Tokyo (JP); Toshiki Tanaka, Tokyo (JP); Daisuke Furutomo, Tokyo (JP); Yu Kudo, Tokyo (JP); Kiyona Miyamoto, Tokyo (JP); Daishi Matsukura, Tokyo (JP); Mohamed Ragab, Tokyo (JP); Abdelkader Haouchine, Tokyo (JP); Damien Haikal, Tokyo (JP); Chit Hong Yam, Tokyo (JP); and Julian Jakub Gramatyka, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to ispace, Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by ispace, inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on May 18, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/320,161.
Application 18/320,161 is a continuation of application No. 16/324,537, granted, now 11,661,218, previously published as PCT/JP2017/028680, filed on Aug. 8, 2017.
Claims priority of application No. PCT/JP2016/073659 (WO), filed on Aug. 10, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2024/0262539 A1, Aug. 8, 2024
Int. Cl. B64G 5/00 (2006.01); B64G 1/10 (2006.01); B64G 1/16 (2006.01); B64G 1/42 (2006.01); B64G 1/44 (2006.01); B64G 1/66 (2006.01); B64G 3/00 (2006.01); C25B 1/04 (2021.01); E21C 51/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/265 (2006.01); H04N 23/54 (2023.01)
CPC B64G 5/00 (2013.01) [B64G 1/105 (2013.01); B64G 1/1085 (2013.01); B64G 1/16 (2013.01); B64G 1/421 (2013.01); B64G 1/443 (2013.01); B64G 1/66 (2013.01); B64G 3/00 (2013.01); C25B 1/04 (2013.01); E21C 51/00 (2013.01); H04N 5/265 (2013.01); B64G 1/1071 (2023.08); H04N 23/54 (2023.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An exploration method comprising:
a step of
moving a space probe including a solar cell, which is configured to travel on a moon surface, to a position at which the space probe can be exposed to sunlight on the moon surface, or
landing a lander including the solar cell at a position at which the lander can be exposed to the sunlight on the moon surface;
a step of digging a soil of a recess corresponding to permanent shadow which a satellite of a planet, a minor planet, or a planet has;
a step of acquiring a water by collecting or liquefying vapor obtained by evaporating through heating, ice included in soil or by liquefying the ice included in soil or a rock, or the block of ice in the recess located in the permanent shadow; and
a step of generating, by the solar cell disposed on a moon surface other than the permanent shadow, power,
wherein in the acquiring step, the water is acquired by collecting vapor obtained by evaporating ice through heating of soil or a rock or a block of ice using the generated power.