twin disks have very different properties

Astronomers in Korea and Japan observed both gaseous and solid material in a pair of protostellar disks and found that the twin disks have very different properties
Minho's Astronomy Image Gallery
"There are two protostars, NGC 1333 IRAS 4A1/2, at the center of the new radio images. Among them, A1 is brighter in the radio emission from interstellar dust while A2 is brighter in the emission from molecular gas. A1 and A2 are located in a single molecular cloud. That is, they are twin baby stars being made in a single mother body. "

http://minho.kasi.re.kr/ImageGallery/200709.NGC1333-4NH3/

ガス円盤と塵円盤を伴う双子の原始星の発見

http://alma.mtk.nao.ac.jp/~kt/ktpress.html

噂は聞いてたけど、決まったらしい かってのLord British改めジェネラル(爆)ブリティッシュことRichard Garriott 地球周回軌道へ

今現在では、
ロード・ブリティッシュ改めジェネラル・ブリティッシュことRichard Garriott
と言うらしいですが(笑)

父親がNASA関連と読んだ覚えはあったけど、スカイラブ計画の宇宙飛行士とは初めて知った
【モスクワ２９日ＡＦＰ＝時事】国際宇宙ステーション（ＩＳＳ）への宇宙旅行を扱う米スペース・アドベンチャーズ社は２９日、６番目の「宇宙旅行者」に、人気オンライン・ロールプレイングゲーム「ウルティマオンライン」の開発者である米国人リチャード・ギャリオット氏が決まったと声明で明らかにした。同氏の父親は米スカイラブ計画の宇宙飛行士だったオーウェン氏"
時事ドットコム：父は元飛行士、親子２代で宇宙へ＝次の「旅行者」に米ゲーム開発者
http://www.jiji.com/jc/a?g=afp_soc&k=20070930014494a

ギャリオット氏は，宇宙飛行士だった父親の影響で宇宙への関心が強いことで知られており，2007年4月にはイギリスの理論物理学者で，ブラックホールに関する研究で日本でも有名なスティーブン・ホーキング博士と共に，無重力状態を体験するフライトに参加している（。今回の飛行は，民間人の宇宙飛行を斡旋する，Space Adventuresに依頼するもので，一回のフライトには2500万～3000万ドル（約29億～35億円）の費用がかかるとのこと
http://www.4gamer.net/games/010/G001036/20070921022/

Shot dead trying to show the real picture of Myanmar clashes

Japanese journalist shot to death covering protests in Burma - On Deadline - USATODAY.com
"Kenji Nagai of APF, a Japanese news service, continues to work after being shot during clashes today between Burmese security forces and anti-government protesters. Nagai later died of his wounds. "
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/09/todays-photo-ja.html

Today's photo: Japanese journalist shot to death covering protests ...
USA Today - 4 hours ago
Kenji Nagai of APF, a Japanese news service, continues to work after being shot during clashes today between Burmese security forces and anti-government ...
Foreign journo dies in Myanmar News24

Japanese journalist first foreign victim of Myanmar clashes AFP
BURMA: POLICE SHOOTINGS IN YANGON, AT LEAST 5 DEAD Agenzia Giornalistica Italia
The Statesman - The Japan Times
all 19 news articles »

The Sunday Times
Shot dead trying to show the real picture of Burma
Independent, UK - 32 minutes ago
We cannot be certain of the exact circumstances in which Mr Nagai died, but a series of pictures appears to suggest he was callously gunned down, ...
how the protest was crushed The Sunday Times
Photographer killed doing his job The Herald
Japanese journalist killed in Burma Press Gazette

Soyuz relocation Sep 27, 2007

PART2


NASA - International Space Station
"
International Space Station crew members docked their Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft to the aft port of the Zvezda service module at 3:47 p.m. EDT Thursday, completing a move of 80 feet."
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html

qubits:Two Giant Steps In Advancement Of Quantum Computing Achieved

ScienceDaily: Two Giant Steps In Advancement Of Quantum Computing Achieved
"Science Daily — Two major steps toward putting quantum computers into real practice -- sending a photon signal on demand from a qubit onto wires and transmitting the signal to a second, distant qubit -- have been brought about by a team of scientists at Yale."
Qubits, the building blocks of a future quantum computer, become useful when quantum communication between them can be established. In our experiment, this job is done by photons in a cavity on a microchip. This way, quantum information is successfully shuttled back and forth between two superconducting qubits. (Robert Schoelkopf Lab, Yale University)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070926172350.htm


Two Giant Steps In Advancement Of Quantum Computing Achieved
Science Daily (press release) - 19 hours ago
Science Daily — Two major steps toward putting quantum computers into real practice -- sending a photon signal on demand from a qubit onto wires and ...

Quantum communication: atoms talk long distance
Reuters UK, UK - 13 hours ago
So far, physicists have worked mostly on developing the most basic of elements that can store information known as quantum bits, or qubits. ...

Superconducting Quantum Computing Cable Created
Science Daily (press release) - 19 hours ago
The scientists encoded information in one qubit, transferred this information as microwave energy to the resonant section of cable for a short storage time ...

A quantum leap for quantum computing
AFP - 23 hours ago
This is not the first time that scientists have succeeded in linking one qubit with another, said Majer. But it is the first time they have done so over a ...
News and Views
Nature.com (subscription), UK - Sep 26, 2007
In principle, a serviceable quantum computer needs a collection of fully controllable qubits. A qubit can be represented by pretty much anything physical ...
Coupling superconducting qubits via a cavity bus
Nature.com (subscription), UK - Sep 26, 2007
Superconducting circuits are promising candidates for constructing quantum bits (qubits) in a quantum computer; single-qubit operations are now routine 1, ...
Coherent quantum state storage and transfer between two phase ...
Nature.com (subscription), UK - Sep 26, 2007
After preparing an initial quantum state with the first qubit, this quantum information is transferred and stored as a nonclassical photon state of the ...
Quantum computing gets its chips
New Scientist (subscription), UK - Sep 26, 2007
After encoding information in one qubit, they transferred it into the cavity for 10 nanoseconds before transferring it to the other qubit. ...

Dawn Launched: 27 Sep

7:35 a.m. – Six of the solid-fueled boosters have burned out and fallen away from the Delta II rocket. The three remaining boosters ignited to help speed the Dawn spacecraft on its way. .

7:34 a.m. – The Delta II has reached Mach 1 thirty seconds after launch. .

7:34 a.m. - LIFTOFF!

7:33 a.m. - T- 1 minute and counting . . .

7:32 a.m. – T- 2 minutes and counting . . .

7:31 a.m. – Dawn is in the last stage of the countdown. Computers and sensors on the computer and spacecraft are signaling they are ready for launch. .

7:30 a.m. - T-4 minutes and counting . . . Controllers gave their "go" for launch and Dawn remains on schedule for a 7:20 a.m. liftoff.

7:26 a.m. - The new launch time comes at the end of a collision avoidance window. That means Dawn would have come closer than allowed to an object already in orbit if it had launched between 7:27 a.m. and 7:33 a.m. Because the object is moving at orbital speed, it takes only a few minutes to move out of the way. Meanwhile, the ship that violated the exclusion area has also moved out of the way.

7:24 a.m. - NEW LAUNCH TIME: 7:34 a.m.

NASA - NASA's Launch Blog - Dawn Mission to Vesta and Ceres
"7:24 a.m. - NEW LAUNCH TIME: 7:34 a.m.
7:20 a.m. - A ship has entered the exclusion area offshore. The ship is in the area where the solid-fueled boosters would fall. The ship should be out of the area by 7:25 a.m. A new launch time has not been set.
7:12 a.m. - The final "go" has been issued for launch at 7:20 a.m.
7:06 a.m. - T-4 minutes and holding . . . The countdown has entered its last planned pause. "
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/dawn/launch/launch-blog.html

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Dawn's launch day has been delayed 24 hours to Sept. 27. Weather prevented techinicians from completing the loading of fuel on the Delta rocket's second stage.

The Dawn Mission will be the first time a spacecraft will orbit two planetary bodies on a single voyage as it studies Ceres and Vesta.
Launch window: 7:25 to 7:54 a.m. EDT
NASA - NASA's Shuttle and Rocket Missions
http://www.nasa.gov/missions/highlights/schedule.html

NASA names the day for Dawn raid on asteroid belt | The Register
"The agency gets three chances. Although each window is short, there is a launch opportunity on each of the 26, 27, and 28 September, so even if a storm threatens on 26 September, the asteroid hunter could still see space next week."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/18/dawn_launch_date/

Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR)

"The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), now scheduled for launch in 2011, will observe the cosmos in the poorly studied high-energy X-ray band. It is part of NASA's Small Explorer class of missions, which have a cost cap of $105 million, not including launch costs.
NuSTAR will carry out a census of black holes of all sizes, from small ones weighing a few times the mass of the Sun to 'supermassive' black holes weighing millions or billions of Suns.
NuSTAR should be able to spot some dust-shrouded black holes that other satellites like the Chandra X-ray Observatory cannot see. That's because NuSTAR detects X-rays with energies as high as 80,000 electronvolts (80 keV), which can penetrate dust that blocks lower-energy X-rays."
NASA resurrects cancelled black hole mission - space - 21 September 2007 - New Scientist Space
http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn12679-nasa-resurrects-cancelled-black-hole-mission.html

Ulysses space probe

Ulysses returns to the Sun's polar cap
http://ulysses.jpl.nasa.gov/

Although originally designed for a mission lasting 5 years, the Ulysses space probe and its suite of 9 scientific experiments are still going strong after more than 16 years in orbit.
ESA Portal - Life in Space - Ulysses scores a hat-trick
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMUHTN2UXE_Life_0.html

Center for Deep Earth Exploration (CDEX): 地球深部探査船「ちきゅう」

Center for Deep Earth Exploration (CDEX)
CHIKYU HAKKEN｜CDEX - IODP JAPAN IO -
http://www.jamstec.go.jp/chikyu/eng/index.html

CHIKYU HAKKEN｜ちきゅう
http://www.jamstec.go.jp/chikyu/jp/CHIKYU/index.html
南海トラフ地震発生帯掘削計画実施のため
9月13日 三菱重工業株式会社横浜製作所本牧工場　横浜港より出港

地球深部探査船「ちきゅう」、南海トラフで掘削開始
朝日新聞 - 3時間前
巨大地震の巣「南海トラフ」における地震の発生メカニズムを解明しようと海洋研究開発機構の地球深部探査船「ちきゅう」が２４日、和歌山県・新宮港南東約７０キロの熊野灘で、海底下の掘削作業に着手した。一帯は、海側のプレート（岩板）が陸側のプレートの下に ...

紀伊半島沖の東南海地震震源域 プレート境界初掘削 「ちきゅう」出航
フジサンケイ　ビジネスアイ - 2007年9月21日
海洋研究開発機構の最新鋭の科学掘削船「ちきゅう」（約５万７０００トン）が２１日午後４時すぎ、和歌山県新宮市の新宮港から紀伊半島沖に向けて出航した。日米が主導する統合国際深海掘削計画（ＩＯＤＰ）の一環として、２４日ごろから東南海地震の震源域であるプレート ...

地球深部探査船「ちきゅう」、熊野灘へ出港
朝日新聞 - 2007年9月21日
東南海地震の震源域「南海トラフ」付近の海底構造を探るため、海洋研究開発機構の地球深部探査船「ちきゅう」が２１日夕、和歌山県の新宮港を出港、調査地点の熊野灘に向かった。新宮港の南東約７０キロ付近の海底から地質試料を採取し、巨大地震や津波が発生する ...

探査船「ちきゅう」出港・東南海地震の震源域を掘削
日本経済新聞 - 2007年9月21日
海洋研究開発機構の地球深部探査船「ちきゅう」が21日午後、新宮港（和歌山県）を出港した。紀伊半島沖約100キロの熊野灘で東南海地震の震源域とされる海底を掘削し、地震発生の仕組みを解明する研究に役立てる。早ければ24日から掘削を開始する予定。 ...

探査船ちきゅう 始まる地震発生の謎解明
山陽新聞 - 2007年9月22日
海洋研究開発機構の地球深部探査船「ちきゅう」が、いよいよ深海底の本格的な掘削を始める。掘削調査海域は、東南海地震などの震源域とされる南海トラフが延びる紀伊半島沖の熊野灘である。 「ちきゅう」は、玉野市の三井造船玉野事業所で建造された。 ...

巨大地震発生の仕組み探る 探査船「ちきゅう」新宮港出港
紀伊民報 - 2007年9月22日
熊野灘の南海トラフを掘削して、巨大地震（南海、東南海）の発生の仕組みを探る、海洋研究開発機構＝神奈川県横須賀市＝の地球深部探査船「ちきゅう」（全長２１０メートル、幅38メートル、５万７０８７トン）が21日午後、新宮市の新宮港を調査海域に向けて出港した。 ...

Spaceport America

Texas space ventures rocket into reality | Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Business
"Spaceport America　Construction is to begin next year on Spaceport America, a commercial spaceport in New Mexico.
In Van Horn, Texas - 120 miles southeast of El Paso - a private spaceport built by Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, is already testing rockets for his Blue Origin venture."
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/DN-space_23bus.ART0.State.Edition1.35b8ad6.html

China to add 4th launch site: Wenchang Satellite Launch Center

China to add 4th launch site: Wenchang Satellite Launch Center
WSLC is China’s southernmost space center, being only about 19 degrees north of the equator.
"Besides its three existing launch sites at Jiuquan, Taiyuan, and Xichang, China is adding a fourth site at Hainan Province to keep up with its expanding presence in space. "- iTWire
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/14574/1066/
他の3つの発射施設の歴史的経緯まで簡潔にまとめてある記事
たくみ

China National Space Administration
http://www.cnsa.gov.cn/n615709/cindex.html

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日本の二大紙(爆)は　いつも通りの具合(爆)

asahi.com： 中国、海南省に新たな打上げ施設建設へ - 人民日報 - 国際
国務院、中央軍事委員会の認可を経て、海南省文昌市に新たな宇宙発射施設が建設されることが２２日、明らかになった。
新施設は無汚染型運搬ロケット、新型宇宙機器の打上げ需要に応え、静止軌道衛星、大型極軌道衛星、トン級宇宙ステーション、深宇宙探査衛星などの打上げを担う。
海南島は緯度が低いことから静止軌道衛星の運搬に便利で、衛星を長持ちさせることができるため費用対効果が高い。中国の宇宙発射の地理配分を改善し、総合的な実力を高められ、国際協力、対外宇宙サービスの促進につながる"
http://www.asahi.com/international/jinmin/TKY200709230080.html

【読売】中国の中央テレビは２２日、中国政府が新たなロケット発射基地を南部の海南省文昌市に建設することを承認したと伝えた。
既存の発射基地３か所は、四川省西昌、内モンゴル自治区と甘粛省にまたがる酒泉、山西省太原のいずれも内陸部にある。これに比べて、海に囲まれた海南省は、推進力が大きく、運搬能力の高い大型ロケットを海上輸送できる上、低緯度のためロケットを静止軌道に乗せやすいなどの利点がある。新発射基地は大型宇宙ステーションの打ち上げなどの役割を担うことになるという。
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/world/news/20070922it13.htm?from=navr

10th anniversary of the discovery of dark energy

"10th anniversary of the discovery of dark energy this fall"
Begley: The Mysteries of the Universe's 'Dark Energy’ - Newsweek Sharon Begley - MSNBC.com
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20920380/site/newsweek/

"We have an idea as to its parameters, but we still don't know what dark matter is made of," said Stavros Katsanevas, head of France's national institute for nuclear and particle physics.
"We think we understand the universe, but we only understand four percent of everything," said James Watson Cronin, who won the 1980 Nobel for physics by proving that certain subatomic reactions escape the laws of fundamental symmetry.
AFP: In the dark: science still mystified by stuff of universe
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gOd_tXtCge3TZ4qh0kBAYqafYlTw

Book: ISScapades: The Crippling of America’s Space Program By Donald A. Beattie

ISScapades: The Crippling of America’s Space Program By Donald A. Beattie;
Donald A. Beattie, a retired senior manager at NASA, was in its inner sanctum during the crucial period, from 1982 to 1998, when the station was conceived and born.
IEEE Spectrum: Lost in Space
"Reviewed by James Oberg
You can learn a lot from this study of the International Space Station, a troubled attempt to coordinate NASA and its Soviet and later Russian counter­part. Above all, you learn how not to manage a major technological project."
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/sep07/5481

Herschel: Largest space telescope Slated for launch in French Guiana next July

Herschel's heart and brain mated
19 September 2007
Herschel, Europe’s infrared space observatory is being presented to the media today
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM0ZJJPK6F_index_0.html

"Herschel, which, when launched next year, will be the largest space telescope yet put into orbit.
Slated for launch in French Guiana next July.
Herschel will deepen the data being collected by the ESA's older Infrared Space Observatory, along with the U.S. Spitzer telescope, and Japan's Akari, looking at areas of the spectrum that have yet to be studied in this manner.
" Wired Science - Wired Blogs
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/09/biggest-space-t.html

Magnetars : a type of neutron star

"Astronomers discovered a magnetar with the NASA's X-Ray Timing Explorer in July 2003, when it brightened by about 100 times its usual faint luminosity. They continued monitoring it regularly with the European Photon Imaging Camera, known as EPIC, on the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton Observatory until March 2006, when the object faded to its pre-outburst brightness.
As the magnetar faded, EPIC recorded changes in the energies of the X-rays released.
University of Arizona Astronomers Pinpoint Origin of Nature's Most Powerful Magnetic Bursts | UANews"
http://uanews.org/node/16013

Progress 25 to plunge into Earth's atmosphere and burn up during reentry

SPACE.com -- Disposable Russian Cargo Ship Departs Space Station
"The unmanned Progress 25 supply ship undocked from the aft end of the space station's Russian-built Zvezda service module at 8:37 p.m. EDT (0037 Sept. 19 GMT).

Russian flight controllers plan to put the disposable space freighter through a week-long series of propulsion maneuvers before commanding Progress 25 to plunge into Earth's atmosphere and burn up during reentry."
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/070919_exp15_prog25discard.html

International Space Station is an orbital turkey

Nobel Laureate Disses NASA's Manned Spaceflight -- SPACE.com
""Human beings don't serve any useful function in space," Weinberg told SPACE.com. "They radiate heat, they're very expensive to keep alive and unlike robotic missions, they have a natural desire to come back, so that anything involving human beings is enormously expensive.""
http://www.space.com/news/070918_weinberg_critique.html

I love ISS, but his opinion might not be wrong, in fact.
確かに　そういう一面はある

Voyager: Planetary Voyage

Voyager
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/


PART2

NORADが監視している人工物体同士による初の衝突 1996年

"1996年7月24日に、フランスの軍事技術試験衛星「セリース」が、欧州のアリアン・ロケットの破片と相対速度14km/秒で衝突した。これが、NORADが軌道を監視している人工物体同士による初の衝突"
1999年打ち上げの気象衛星「風雲1号C」を標的とした中国の衛星破壊　時の詳細記事から
http://www.nikkeibp.co.jp/style/biz/feature/matsuura/space/070202_hakai/index1.html

衛星破壊実験は、1985年を最後に米ソ共に実験を中断していた。

"NHK 2007/01/19
中国が先週１１日、地上発射型の中距離弾道ミサイルを発射して、地上８６５キロメートルにあった古い気象衛星を撃ち落とす実験を行ったことを確認した
ということです。これについて、ＮＳＣ・国家安全保障会議のジョンドロー報道官は１８日、「そうした兵器の開発や実験は、宇宙利用にあたっての米中両国の協力の精神と反するものだ。わが国と他の国々は、今回の中国の行為に対して懸念を表明する」"

一年も経たないうちに　そんなこともあったなぁって
その時感じた憤りも　すっかり忘れちゃう　のでコピペ
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/yellowz/20070119
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/yellowz/20070307
以下

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Googleを怒らせたMITによる中国の衛星破壊実験の解析画像

"事を荒立てることで中国政府の 反発を招き中国国内でのビジネスに影響が生じることを恐れたGoogleが中国が衛星破壊 用のミサイルを発射したロケット発射基地の地図画像を判別できないように修正を加え る"

http://www.technobahn.com/cgi-bin/news/read2?f=200702242026

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宇宙開発: 1年前に打ち上げられたロケットが軌道上で突然爆発、大量のデブリが拡散

"中国による衛星破壊実験を上回るデブリを撒き散らしていた"

http://www.technobahn.com/cgi-bin/news/read2?f=200703051905

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次世代核弾頭開発コンペ、ローレンスリバモア研究所に軍配

"【テクノバーン】（2007/3/5 17:48）ブッシュ政権は2日、今後、50年間に渡って利用されてる新型核弾頭にローレンスリバ モア国立研究所が開発した核弾頭を採用することを発表"以上【テクノバーン】

http://www.technobahn.com/cgi-bin/news/read2?f=200703051748

Star Eats Star

SWIFT J1756.9-2508 system (credit:NASA)

NASA - "Star Eats Star"
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/starsgalaxies/millisecond_pulsar.html


Space watchers spot pulsar eating a star | The Register
"NASA says the SWIFT J1756.9-2508 system is one of the most bizarre objects ever discovered in space. The observations from the RXTE satellite suggest the pulsar, which contains roughly 1.4 solar masses, is about 10 miles in diameter, and is spinning 182.07 times per second."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/18/pulsar_skeleton/

NASA Begins Hunt for New Astronauts

NASA Begins Hunt for New Astronauts -- SPACE.com
"The U.S. space agency announced Tuesday that it is accepting applications for its 2009 Astronaut Candidate Class. Would-be spaceflyers have until July 1, 2008 to apply, the agency said.
"They would begin duty at the Johnson Space Center in August 2009," NASA spokesperson Katherine Trinidad told SPACE.com of the new astronauts. Based in Houston, Texas, the Johnson Space Center (JSC) is home to NASA's space shuttle and ISS mission controls, as well as its astronaut corps.
After completing basic training, members of the 2009 astronaut class could go on to fly long-duration flights to the ISS or lunar flights aboard NASA's future Orion Crew Exploration Vehicles, NASA officials said."
http://www.space.com/news/070918_nasa_newastros.html

Want to be an astronaut? Here's your chance | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
"NASA posted a hiring notice for new astronauts Tuesday, seeking for the first time in almost 30 years men and women to fly aboard spacecraft other than the shuttle."
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/5146727.html

Variations of the Delta rocket

Delta Rocket Gallery
http://exploration.grc.nasa.gov/education/rocket/gallery/delta/delta1.html

The WorldView-1 satellite launched on September 18

SPACE.com -- Countdown Coverage for Delta 2 Rocket's WorldView-1 Launch
"Countdown Coverage for Delta 2 Rocket's WorldView-1 Launch"
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/sfn_070918_delta2_worldview.html

The WorldView-1 satellite is scheduled to launch on Tuesday,
September 18, 2007, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
衛星「WorldView I」9月18日に打ち上げ
米BoeingのWebサイトで中継
Boeing: Integrated Defense Systems - Boeing Launch Services - Delta
", with the launch window opening at 11:35am and closing at 11:49am PT. "
http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/bls/missions/worldview-1/
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投稿を公開

"「Google Earth」に画像を提供している米DigitalGlobeが、高解像度の新衛星「WorldView I」は9月18日に打ち上げ"
Google Earth画像、新衛星でさらに高精細に - ITmedia News
http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/0709/18/news010.html

HTV (H-II Transfer Vehicle)

JAXA | HTV (H-II Transfer Vehicle)
http://www.jaxa.jp/projects/rockets/htv/index_e.html　　

Making of Japanese AstroE2

Making of AstroE2
Credit: NASA TV

Jupiter and Pluto

Jupiter Feb 2007

that make humans human

Human Evolution - Genus Homo - Lost in a Million-Year Gap, Solid Clues to Human Origins - New York Times
"Neurobiology probes the circuitry of the brain for the secrets of behaviors and thoughts that make humans human."
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/science/18evol.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

30年遅れの 月に有人じゃなく ESAロシアは火星を目指す？

ESA Portal - Lift-off for Foton microgravity mission
14 September 2007
ESA PR 28-2007. An unmanned Foton spacecraft, carrying a payload of more than 40 ESA experiments, was successfully launched earlier today. The Soyuz-U launcher lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 13:00 CEST (11:00 GMT)."
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMQDB13J6F_index_0.html

"Life Marker Chip" (LMC) experiment, which has the potential to detect trace levels of biomarkers in the Martian environment. Biomarkers are molecular fingerprints that indicate if life currently is, or ever was, present on Mars.
The LMC experiment has been proposed for the European Space Agency's ExoMars rover mission, which is planned for launch in 2013.
ScienceDaily: Life on Mars 'Pregnancy Test' Successfully Launched
"The experiment was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan as part of the European Space Agency's BIOPAN-6 experiment platform. The LMC components will experience both weightlessness and the harsh space radiation environment while orbiting the Earth 180 times at an altitude of up to 190 miles (308 km) during the 11.8 day mission.
The BIOPAN-6 platform is mounted on the outside of an un-manned Russian FOTON spacecraft. Once in space the BIOPAN-6 platform will open to expose its contents directly to the space environment, testing both their resistance to space radiation and the space vacuum, before closing and returning to Earth on September 25th. "
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070917112501.htm

地上の特定の地域に、どう降ろせるのか、よく分からない(^^ゞ
Satellite to test special deliveries from space - Space News - MSNBC.com
"cheaper method of returning small cargo from the international space station "
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20759120/

WIRED VISION / Wired Science / 人工衛星ペイロードを「振り子」のように地球に戻す実験
"YES2の核となるのは、重さ約5.4キログラムの耐熱性着陸用カプセル『Fotino』だ。Foton-M3が地球の周回軌道に乗ると、カプセルは衛星の下に付いた、全長約30キロメートルにおよぶ、釣り糸のように細いテザー(つなぎ綱)の先端につながれる。
このテザーを切り離すと、うまくいけばカプセルがパラシュートで地表に到達する仕組み"
http://wiredvision.jp/blog/wiredscience/200709/20070919130708.php

日本の記事　タイトルがなんとも(^^ゞ
http://www.jiji.com/jc/a?g=afp_sci&k=20070915014280a
ネズミ乗せた宇宙船打ち上げ＝火星有人探査への実験
【モスクワ１４日ＡＦＰ＝時事】将来の火星有人探査に向けた実験として、アレチネズミ１０匹を乗せた宇宙船が１４日、カザフスタンのバイコヌール宇宙基地からロシアのロケットで打ち上げられた。１２日間宇宙を飛行し、生理学、生物学的影響を調査する。

「フランスのプライオリティは、まず火星、次に小惑星など、その次に月だ」
国際協力による有人月探査は様子見 - ビジネススタイル - nikkei BPnet
"フランス国立宇宙研究センター（CNES）のファビエ戦略局次長は、パネルディスカッションにおけるプレゼンテーションで「フランスのプライオリティは、まず火星、次に小惑星など、その次に月だ。ただし月の科学的重要性は理解している」と発言
http://www.nikkeibp.co.jp/style/biz/feature/matsuura/space/070313_sympo1/

This Week at NASA 0915

the 55 billion yen ($479.2 million) launch of SELENE

"The lunar orbiter Kaguya, named after a Moon princess in a Japanese fairytale, was launched from Japan's space centre on the small southern island of Tanegashima. The 55 billion yen ($480 million) Selenological and Engineering Explorer (SELENE), to give it its full name, will orbit the Earth twice before beginning a 20-day, 237,500-mile (380,000-km) journey to establish an orbit around the Moon." "
http://bussorah.blogspot.com/2007/09/hooters-opens-in-china-with-chinese.html

防衛省に呑み込まれなければ　いいのだけど・・・
松浦晋也のL/D
"1998年から始まった情報収集衛星計画はこれまでに累積で5050億円を消費し、今もコンスタントに年間500億円あまりを使い続けている。毎年「かぐや」1機並の予算を着実に消費しているわけだ。
　なおかつ最初の光学衛星は公称解像度を達成できず、しかも何に使っているかは機密の壁の向こうである。"
http://smatsu.air-nifty.com/lbyd/

"過去25年のロケット打ち上げ回数をみれば分かりますよ。ロシア1500発、米国500発に対し、日本は50発――。それでも、打ち上げれば1基100億円は高いと批判される。
2000億円ではいかにも少ない。GDPのわずか0.04％ですよ。ODA（政府開発援助）はもっと出しているでしょ。比べて米国の宇宙予算は1兆7000億円。昔はもっと多かった。
"西野弘のとことん対談　立川敬二　宇宙開発の精神性――世界人類に貢献するということ（後編）
2006年2月号 Web用に再編集
http://executive.itmedia.co.jp/hensyubu/archive/142/0

月周回衛星「かぐや」（SELENE）打上げ成功 おめでとうッ

ノーカット・フルバージョン　57分は
http://momo2007.vox.com/library/video/6a00ccff98b3256ea500e398a85ec70004.html
で見れます

"今回の打ち上げ費用は衛星の開発費が320億円、
ロケットが110億円、
地上設備が120億円の計550億円。"
「かぐや」打ち上げ成功　予定軌道へ - ITmedia News
http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/0709/14/news057.html
ところで１０月末に無人の月周回衛星「嫦娥１号」を打ち上げる中国での

報道では、「かぐや」は
「月亮女神」＝月学工学衛星
とのこと
"中国で「かぐや」は、正式名称の「セレーネ（ＳＥＬＥＮＥ、Ｓｅｌｅｎｏｌｏｇｉｃａｌ　ａｎｄ　Ｅｎｇｉｎｅｅｒｉｎｇ　Ｅｘｐｌｏｒｌｅｒ＝月学工学衛星）」がギリシア神話の月の女神と同名であることから
「月亮女神」と紹介された"
http://news.searchina.ne.jp/disp.cgi?y=2007&d=0914&f=national_0914_002.shtml

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