Shota Ito

I am a doctoral student at Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS/JAXA) and at Tokyo Metropolitan University.

I graduated Tokyo Metropolitan University (B.E and M.E) in Aeronautics and Astronautics. During my M.E., I worked on low lunar orbit design, and my master’s study won two student awards in Japan. Also, I have developed a small satellite and CanSat and I won some prizes in the CanSat competition. Also, I worked in Mission Analysis and Flight Dynamics team at ispace.inc as paid student. I worked on the analysis of transfer from Earth to Moon, station keeping of low lunar orbit, and development of analysis tool of lunar orbit.

My current study is identification of the dynamics on the Poincare map in three-body problem and applying it to trajectory design. Historically, the Poincare map has been used to analyze the behavior of three-body problem, but previous studies used some approximation to express the dynamics on the Poincare map. As a result, there are non-negligible gaps from the actual behavior of three-body problem. Therefore, I’m trying to identify the dynamics on the Poincare map using machine learning with higher accuracy and applying it to not only trajectory design but also to analyze comet behavior. As subtopics, I also study low thrust trajectory design using transformers and low lunar orbit design.

In my free time, I often play board games with my lab members and enjoy hot springs and public baths! There are fewer public baths and hot springs in the Netherlands than Japan… but I don’t care. There is a lot of fun which is not in Japan instead of hot spring!!

Please feel free to email moc.liamg@atummtibih or contact https://www.linkedin.com/in/shota-ito-b82573244/.