IKAROS (Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation Of the Sun) is a Japanese interplanetary spacecraft that was successfully launched on 21 May 2010 aboard an H-IIA rocket by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
IKAROS (Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation Of the Sun) is a Japanese interplanetary spacecraft and also is the only one solar-sail spacecraft in the world. That was successfully launched on 21 May 2010 aboard an H-IIA rocket by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.