Per aspera ad astra!〜志業編〜

Space generation Advisory Council(SGAC)の2010年のレポートが完成しました！！

http://www.spacegeneration.org/index.php/eventstopics/news/330-sgac-releases-the-full-version-of-the-2010-annual-report

Executive Summary


SGAC Annual Report 2010

また、下記が、日本について作成した時の原稿です。
上記リンクの全体レポートの中では、多少変更しています。

Japan

State of the Space Programme
This year most space news covered MUSES-C “Hayabusa”, which successfully returned to Earth after collecting some samples from asteroid Itokawa. Also this year H2-A rocket had two symbolic launches from Japan. First H2-A deep space mission, PLANET-C “Akatsuki”, launched in May as a Venus observation satellite, but failed to enter the orbit of Venus in December. Piggybacked on this launch was the Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation Of the Sun, “Ikaros”. It tested solar sail system successfully. Also piggybacked were four university and (non-commercial) company satellites, UNITEC-1 “Shin-en’”,” Negai☆”, KSAT “Hayato”, and “Waseda-Sat2”. They had successful separations to enter their respective orbits. Unfortunately, almost all satellites are not in good communication conditions currently. A GPS technical verification satellite, QZS-1 ‘MIchibiki’, successfully launched o H2-A in September. The satellite was inserted into a quasi zenith orbit over Japan with a center longitude of about 135. It can communicate for just about 8 hours. Quasi Zenith Satellite System (QZSS) needs at least two more quasi zenith satellites for the around the clock operation. Astronaut Soichi Noguchi worked onboard the International Space Station as the 22nd and 23rd Expedition crew from December 2009. He stayed in ISS for over 160 days total, recording the longest stay among the Japanese astronauts, and returned to the earth in June. In April, our second female astronaut Naoko Yamazaki finally launched onboard the Space Shuttle about 10 years after becoming an astronaut candidate. Over 100 people from Japan through JAXA’s invitation travelled to Cape Canaveral to witness the beautiful launch at dawn.

Recent space policy remains confusing in Japan. The Democratic Party tried to cut the science budget including space exploration by the screening process, ‘Zigyo Shiwake’. However, the effects of the Hayabusa mission prevented further decrease in the space exploration budget. On the other hand, the information center ‘JAXAi’ in central Tokyo closed at the end of December due to wasting of the governmental budget. The government have many meetings about the new National Defence Program Outline. Finally, at this time, the Outline did not include revision of the nation's three-point ban on exporting weapons and manufacturing products for military use to the ‘white countries’ except the USA.

The technological executive director at JAXA, Mr. Yasushi Horikawa, was elected the next Chairman of COPUOS from 2012, joining Japanese astronaut Takao Doi who has worked at UNOOSA in Vienna since September 2009 as an important member of the UN space community and strengthening Japan’s contribution to the UN. Aside from the governmental or defence space, commercial space in Japan remains a small market and very difficult to spread into non-space companies or the general public. However, in the last few years, to open up the use of outer space for everyone and to trade directly with companies abroad, our colleagues have established new networking organizations, including
HASTEC,
Spaceland Japan,
Next Generation Space System Reliability,
White Label Space Japan LLC.

SGAC Activities in 2010

SGAC Japan members network
The ‘SGAC Japan’ mailing list group has expanded to 25 members. This year, Shuji Ogawa, Yuri Takaya, Makiko Arahori, and Naomi Kuwahara joined the mailing list group.

Lunar Exploration National Meeting (April)
Seiichiro Morizawa attended the Lunar Exploration National Meeting. The "Conference on Lunar Exploration" is planning unmanned lunar exploration by advanced robots to be achieved around 2020, and as the next step, lunar exploration through collaboration between humans and robots. There were presentations on the considerations of this conference and the latest information related to the Moon, as well as the current state of Japanese and US efforts, with the theme of what is Japanese lunar exploration. Then, in a panel discussion with astronaut, the minister of space development, and so on, along with students who had applied to participate in advance, we had discussions with exchanges of views with participants in the audience.


Newspaper coverage (April)

Noriaki Inami was covered in the one of the biggest Japanese newspaper, Asahi Shinbun, on 8 February.

Yuri’s Night JAPAN 2010 (April)
Under the cherry blossoms, Yuri’s Night Tokyo 2010 was held at Asukayama Park in Tokyo on 10 April. From late March through April, Japan has the "Ohanami" (cherry blossom viewing) season. This year, Yuri’s Night met at this traditional Japanese event! Over 40 people who love space joined the event.

UN COPUOS observer (June)
Hiroshi Yamashita attended UN COPUOS in Vienna 14-18 June. Hiroshi closely observed the sessions and has reported back his interesting point of view as a member of SGAC’s delegation to COPUOS.



TV program Space Roman NHK (July, August)
Noriaki Inami and some other SGAC Japan members talked about romantic space on TV program of Nippon Housou Kyoukai (NHK). The TV program aired on 30 July and 6 August.



White Label Space Japan (September)
The first X-Prize competition team in Japan was established in September. Last year, Professor Yoshida joined White Label Space, one of the official entry team of the Google Lunar X-Prize, located mainly in Europe. To corporate with them, the team president Takeshi Hakamada registered White Label Space Japan as a LLC. They held a start-up event in Tokyo.



SGC Prague (September)
Three Japanese members were delegated to SGC Prague. Naomi Kuwahara presented about ‘Nano -satellite Consternation Mission Idea Contest’ on the last day of SGC. Daichi Nakamura attended the exploration group session and participated actively continuing on from last year. Hiroshi Yamashita got gift sponsorship from two Japanese companies supported by Misuzu Onuki of the Space Frontier Foundation. JTB gifted space document holders for all the SGC delegates. JAMSS gifted them pens and postcards of astronauts.



Milestone event at Spaceport America(October)
Noriaki Inami participated in the Milestone event at Spaceport America. Media coverage: TV appearance on Fuji Television ‘FNN Supernews’, and Nihon Television ‘News Every’ on 24th 25th October.

Space Event at Waseda University (November)
Noriaki Inami talked about training experiences as one of the founders of Virgin Galactic’s Space Ship Two flight. Takeshi Hakamada, president of White Label Space Japan LLC, presented the project to take on the Google Lunar X-Prize challenge. The emcee of the event was a young comedian, Ad Balloon.


Meeting with SGAC members staying in Europe (April - November)
Hiroshi Yamashita stayed in Europe from April to November. During this time he met many SGAC members: Tee and Bee Thakore, Virgiliu Pop, Maria-Laura Voda, Bojan Pecnik, Alex Carl, and Foo Yee Chong. In addition, he was warmly hosted by SGAC head office members, Agnieszka Lukaszczyk and Ariane Cornell, Bernardo R. Dos Santos and Vanessa Passoni during the COPUOS week in Vienna.





Vision of SGAC Japan for 2011

New NPoC Daichi Nakamura will replace Yuki Takahashi at the beginning of 2011. SGAC Japan new year party will be held on 10 January in Tokyo. We will try to reconnect participants of past SGC as alumni organization. We hope to develop more real business relationship with them.

【日程】
2010年4月13日より11月30日までの262日間
スカンジナビア航空　
往路　成田→コペンハーゲン→スキポール
復路　コペンハーゲン→成田

【渡欧の背景】
コンサルティング会社を退職して以降、フリーランスとして、機械設計開発の仕事をする傍ら、国内での再就職も考えたが、就職難と本当にやりたいことの実現に向けて、宇宙分野における国内の閉塞感を打破すべく、2010年に7ヶ月半の渡欧の計画を立てた。
以前勤務していた倒産した宇宙ベンチャー企業のアストロリサーチでは、海外との取引が７割り近くを占めており、自身も海外との業務をいくつか経験していた現状から、宇宙開発で今後も食べていくには、世界を相手にしないと無理だということは認識していた。
今回の渡欧の大きなきっかけの一つとなったのは、Google Lunar X-Prizeに参戦している欧州中心のチーム、White Label Space(WLS)への参画により、具体的に欧州のチームの現状を視察し、評価する必要性があったためだ。また、2005年から参加したものの、本業が多忙であまり積極的に活動できずにいた、Space Generation Advisory Councilの、2009年6月ウィーンでのSpace Generation 10周年に参加し、多くのメンバーと2005年福岡大会以来の再会を果たすとともに、National Point of Contact (NPoC)に就任し、欧州の若手とのつながりが増えたことも、欧州で挑戦したいという気持ちに拍車をかけた。8月のThe Space Tourism Society Japan(STSJ)ロサンゼルスツアーや9月のイタリアのSpaceLand、10月のInternational Astronautical Congress(IAC)韓国テジョン大会でのビジネスとしての過去の取引先との再会などの経験も、海外志向を高めた。また、2010年度末には、技術調査をいただき、資金の一部に充てることができた。

【目的】
欧州宇宙企業を直接訪問し、最新動向を知るとともに、訪問者、参加者とのコミュニケーションを深め、今後の宇宙ビジネスに生かす。
欧州の歴史と文化に触れ、知見を広める。
日程や渡航費用の関係で今まで断念していた、欧州で開催される出席すべき会議やイベントになるべく多く出席する。
宇宙企業機関訪問を通して、就職先、または提携企業を見つけ、長期滞在許可を取得する。
WLSの欧州側の技術の進捗と資金調達の状況を把握する。


まずは欧州の滞在と移動の全体像を動画で掴んでいただきつつ、今後、レポート続きも随時アップしていきたいと思います。

aeroherohiro　http://twitter.com/aeroherohiro
2月12日　つぶやきまとめ


11:55
You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.
- Charles Buxton -
2011/02/12 Sat 11:55 From web

02:53
I uploaded a YouTube video -- WLSJ2010 v2 http://youtu.be/OLFxlh7dIDo?a
2011/02/12 Sat 02:53 From Google

aeroherohiro　http://twitter.com/aeroherohiro
2月10日　つぶやきまとめ


08:56
benpreoyazi さんの YouTube チャンネル（http://www.youtube.com/user/benpreoyazi?feature=autoshare）を登録リストに追加しました。
2011/02/10 Thu 08:56 From Google

08:55
domenichino1 さんの YouTube チャンネル（http://www.youtube.com/user/domenichino1?feature=autoshare）を登録リストに追加しました。
2011/02/10 Thu 08:55 From Google

08:53
remonosuke さんの YouTube チャンネル（http://www.youtube.com/user/remonosuke?feature=autoshare）を登録リストに追加しました。
2011/02/10 Thu 08:53 From Google

08:09
WhiteLabelSpaceCasts さんの YouTube チャンネル（http://www.youtube.com/user/WhiteLabelSpaceCasts?feature=autoshare）を登録リストに追加しました。
2011/02/10 Thu 08:09 From Google

07:56
GoogleLunarXPRIZE さんの YouTube チャンネル（http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleLunarXPRIZE?feature=autoshare）を登録リストに追加しました。
2011/02/10 Thu 07:56 From Google

01:05
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2011/02/10 Thu 01:05 From Google

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