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In Defense of Japan
In Defense of Japan provides the first complete, up-to-date, English-language account of the history, politics, and policy of Japan's strategic space development. The dual-use nature of space technologies, meaning that they cut across both market and military applications, has had two important consequences for Japan. First, Japan has developed space technologies for the market in its civilian space program that have yet to be commercially competitive. Second, faced with rising geopolitical uncertainties and in the interest of their own economics, the makers of such technologies have been critical players in the shift from the market to the military in Japan's space capabilities and policy. This book shows how the sum total of market-to-military moves across space launch vehicles, satellites and spacecraft, and emerging related technologies, already mark Japan as an advanced military space power.
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Space on Earth : how thinking like an astronaut can help save the planet
\"Astronauts on the International Space Station must protect their resources--their lives depend on it. The same is true about Earth. For the planet to survive, we must also conserve water, air, food, and energy, and cut down on waste. 'Space on Earth' explores how innovative efforts in space are inspiring bright ideas on Earth, and how thinking like an astronaut can help us save the planet.\"-- Page 4 of cover.
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Space Science and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations
ITAR, which controls defense trade, includes the U.S. Munitions List (USML) which specifies categories of defense articles and services covered by the regulations. In 1999, space satellites were added to the USML. In 2002 ITAR was amended to exclude U.S. universities from having to obtain ITAR licenses when performing fundamental research involving foreign countries and/or persons. Despite this provision, there remains considerable uncertainty among university researchers about whether the regulations apply to their research leading to a rather conservative interpretation of the regulations and the imposition of burdens that might not be necessary. To explore this concern, NASA asked the NRC to organize a workshop of all stakeholders on the implications of ITAR for space science. This book presents a summary of the workshop discussions including those on perspectives on recent developments and implementation of ITAR; overarching issues; problems arising from ITAR's implementation; and opportunities for near-term actions and improvements.
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Better Space
\"When the United States put a man on the moon, it was 'a giant leap' for scientists.\" (U MAGAZINE) Learn how discoveries made by these scientists at NASA have improved life on Earth.
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Spinoffs from Space
\"Some everyday products came from outer space--that is, they use technologies or materials that were originally developed for the United States space program.\" (Christian Science Monitor) Take a quiz and test your knowledge about these \"space spinoffs.\"
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NASA Crusades for Women's Health
\"NASA is taking the lead in the fight against breast cancer and other women's illnesses by outlining a commitment to identify, develop and transfer NASA technologies to benefit women's health. Major areas of concern are cancer, reproductive health, pregnancy, osteoporosis and education.\" (AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION) Learn how NASA technologies such as digital imaging, advanced ultrasound and smart robot probes are contributing to the knowledge and treatment of women's health issues.
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SEIS: Insight’s Seismic Experiment for Internal Structure of Mars
By the end of 2018, 42 years after the landing of the two Viking seismometers on Mars, InSight will deploy onto Mars’ surface the SEIS (
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xperiment for
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tructure) instrument; a six-axes seismometer equipped with both a long-period three-axes Very Broad Band (VBB) instrument and a three-axes short-period (SP) instrument. These six sensors will cover a broad range of the seismic bandwidth, from 0.01 Hz to 50 Hz, with possible extension to longer periods. Data will be transmitted in the form of three continuous VBB components at 2 sample per second (sps), an estimation of the short period energy content from the SP at 1 sps and a continuous compound VBB/SP vertical axis at 10 sps. The continuous streams will be augmented by requested event data with sample rates from 20 to 100 sps. SEIS will improve upon the existing resolution of Viking’s Mars seismic monitoring by a factor of
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at 1 Hz and
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at 0.1 Hz. An additional major improvement is that, contrary to Viking, the seismometers will be deployed via a robotic arm directly onto Mars’ surface and will be protected against temperature and wind by highly efficient thermal and wind shielding. Based on existing knowledge of Mars, it is reasonable to infer a moment magnitude detection threshold of
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epicentral distance and a potential to detect several tens of quakes and about five impacts per year. In this paper, we first describe the science goals of the experiment and the rationale used to define its requirements. We then provide a detailed description of the hardware, from the sensors to the deployment system and associated performance, including transfer functions of the seismic sensors and temperature sensors. We conclude by describing the experiment ground segment, including data processing services, outreach and education networks and provide a description of the format to be used for future data distribution.
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Medicines from space
Although a decade ago scientists were optimistic about the studies they had conducted on the possibility of manufacturing medicines in space, today the future for it seems bleak. Nevertheless, the research they did, coupled with more recent space experience, has opened the doors to other medical applications. Examined in this article are the effects of weightlessness on the human body and how conditioning astronauts for weightlessness can be applied to the treatment of certain diseases; the effects of the space environment on the growth of cells and how this research can be used in developing drugs; and how studies on the stresses of space voyage can be applied to patients with circulatory problems.
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