Tanpopo Selected Publications

• "Scientific targets of Tanpopo: astrobiology exposure and micrometeoroid capture experiments at the Exposure Facility of the International Space Station."
  Akihiko Yamagishi, Shin-ichi Yokobori,Kensei Kobayashi, Hajime Mita, Hikaru Yabuta, Makoto Tabata, Masumi Higashide and Hajime Yano, Astrobiology 21. 1451-1460 (2021) DOI: 10.1089/ast.2020.2426
• "Four-year operation of Tanpopo: Astrobiology exposure and micrometeoroid capture experiments on the Exposure Facility of the International Space Station."
  Akihiko Yamagishi, Hirofumi Hashimoto, Hajime Yano, Eiichi Imai, Makoto Tabata, Masumi Higashide, and Kyoko Okudaira, Astrobiology 21. 1461?1472 (2021) DOI: 10.1089/ast.2020.2430.
• "Ultralow-density double-layer silica aerogel fabrication for the intact capture of cosmic dust in low-Earth orbits"
  Makoto Tabata, Hideyuki Kawai, Hajime Yano, Eiichi Imai, Hirofumi Hashimoto, Shin-ichi Yokobori, and Akihiko Yamagishi, Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology 77, 325-334 (2016) DOI: 10.1007/s10971-015-3857-3

• "Design, Fabrication, and Evaluation of an Aerogel Processor CLOXS for the Astrobiology Mission Tanpopo"
  Satoshi Sasaki, Jun-ya Imani,and Hajime Yano, Biological Sciences in Space 33, 7-11 (2019) DOI: 10.2187/bss.33.7