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ESA - Space Science
http://www.esa.int/esaSC/index.html
Enceladus動画: Titan's Rival: Scientific American Blog
http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=titans-rival-enceladus-2008-11-19
Enceladusエンケラドス
Ocean on Enceladus May Be Short-Lived :: Astrobiology Magazine - earth science - evolution distribution Origin of life universe - life beyond :: Astrobiology is study of earth science evolution distribution Origin of life in universe terrestrial
"The tide may be changing for the ocean suspected under the icy shell of Enceladus. Recent research has shown that this small moon of Saturn does not produce enough heat in its present configuration to keep water from freezing down to its core."
http://www.astrobio.net/news/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2778&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
土星の衛星タイタンの地下に海が存在か : AFPBB s
"タイタンの密集した大気の流れが自転軸に影響を与え、回転を速めたり遅くしたりしているという説を立てた。だがそれには、タイタンの地下に海流が存在する必要があり、そのため「海が存在する」との推論が導き出されたという。
この分析結果は米科学誌サイエンス（Science）に掲載された。
土星の衛星「エンケラドス（Enceladus）」でも、巨大な間欠泉が観測されていることから、地下に水が存在するとみられている。"
http://www.afpbb.com/article/environment-science-it/science-technology/2369530/2773267
Europa
The next best thing to being there....
Many scientists would love to travel to Europa to study conditions there first-hand, but regular flights to Jupiter probably won't begin for some time. Meanwhile, there is an environment right here on Earth with significant similarities to Europa and Callisto, a place called Lake Vostok.
The frosty plains of Europa
http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast03dec98_1.htm
ESO
"European Organisation for Astronomical Research in theSouthern Hemisphere"
http://www.eso.org/public/
European Science Foundation
http://www.esf.org/
ESA Portal
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/index.html
Planck: Space observatory
LAUNCH DATE Early 2009
Planck will be Europe's first mission
to study Big Bang-relic radiation +
Herschel: Space observatory
LAUNCH DATE Early 2009
The largest space telescope of its type when launched
LISA Pathfinder: Space observatory (technology proof)
A vital 'precursor' mission to test technologies for LISA, a joint ESA/NASA orbiting gravity wave detector +
LAUNCH DATE 1 Mar 2010
Gaia:Space observatory
LAUNCH DATE Dec 2011
NOMINAL MISSION Five years
Will generate the most precise-ever 3D map of our Galaxy by surveying over 1 thousand million stars and potentially discovering hundreds of thousands of new objects, such as extra-solar planets
ESA Spacecraft Operations - Astronomy & fundamental physics missions
http://www.esa.int/esaMI/Operations/SEMASB8ZMRE_0.html
ESTEC
European Space Research and Technology Centre
ヨーロッパ宇宙機関
European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC)
"ESA has sites in several European countries.
The European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), the largest site and the technical heart of ESA ― the incubator of the European space effort ― is in Noordwijk, The Netherlands." - ESA Portal
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMOMQ374OD_index_0.html
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ESA Portal
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/index.html
Planck: Space observatory
LAUNCH DATE Early 2009
Planck will be Europe's first mission
to study Big Bang-relic radiation +
Herschel: Space observatory
LAUNCH DATE Early 2009
The largest space telescope of its type when launched
LISA Pathfinder: Space observatory (technology proof)
A vital 'precursor' mission to test technologies for LISA, a joint ESA/NASA orbiting gravity wave detector +
LAUNCH DATE 1 Mar 2010
Gaia:Space observatory
LAUNCH DATE Dec 2011
NOMINAL MISSION Five years
Will generate the most precise-ever 3D map of our Galaxy by surveying over 1 thousand million stars and potentially discovering hundreds of thousands of new objects, such as extra-solar planets
ESA Spacecraft Operations - Astronomy & fundamental physics missions
http://www.esa.int/esaMI/Operations/SEMASB8ZMRE_0.html
ESO
"ESO, the European Southern Observatory"
http://www.eso.org/public/
ESO: European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere
In a 16-year long study, using several of ESO's flagship telescopes, a team of German astronomers has produced the most detailed view ever of the surroundings of the monster lurking at our Galaxy's heart ― a supermassive black hole.
The research has unravelled the hidden secrets of this tumultuous region by mapping the orbits of almost 30 stars, a five-fold increase over previous studies."
ESO - ESO 46/08 - Unprecedented 16-Year Long Study Tracks Stars Orbiting Milky Way Black Hole
http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/press-rel/pr-2008/pr-46-08.html
CNN.co.jp：銀河系の中心に巨大ブラックホール発見と、独研究者
"銀河系の中心に巨大なブラックホールを発見したと、ドイツ・マックスプラン研究所の研究者が発表した。
質量は太陽の４００万倍
"The stellar orbits in the Galactic Centre show that the central mass concentration of four million solar masses must be a black hole, beyond any reasonable doubt," says Genzel"
１６年間にわたって銀河系中心部にある恒星２８について、動き方を細かく観測。ブラックホールの大きさを割り出した。
銀河系の中心から地球までの距離をより正確に計算、２万７０００光年
The observations also allow astronomers to pinpoint our distance to the centre of the Galaxy with great precision, which is now measured to be 27 000 light-years."
http://www.cnn.co.jp/science/CNN200812100037.html
http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/press-rel/pr-2008/pr-46-08.html
Galactic Center Research
http://www.mpe.mpg.de/ir/GC/index.php
[0810.4674]
Monitoring stellar orbits around the Massive Black Hole in the Galactic Center
"The central object mass is (4.31 +- 0.06|stat +- 0.36|R0) * 10^6 M_sun where the fractional statistical error of 1.5 percent is nearly independent from R0 and the main uncertainty is due to the uncertainty in R0. "
http://arxiv.org/abs/0810.4674
Exoplanets.org
http://exoplanets.org/
First Picture of Likely Planet around Sun-like Star | Gemini Observatory
http://www.gemini.edu/sunstarplanet
恒星のそばに小さな点 初めて写った系外惑星か
http://www.astroarts.co.jp/news/2008/09/17planet_image/
Three "Super-Earths" Found Orbiting Sun-Like Star
The planets orbiting the star HD 40307―which is 42 light-years away―were found using an advanced "planet searcher" instrument at the European Southern Observatory in La Silla, Chile, the French and Swiss astronomers said.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/080616-super-earths.html
Expedition 19
JAXA Astronaut Activity Report:
http://iss.jaxa.jp/en/astro/report/index.html
JAXA宇宙飛行士活動レポート:
http://iss.jaxa.jp/astro/report/index.html
Expedition 19 will double the size of the resident crew on the complex, expanding it to six people.
On February 11, NASA announced the official crew for Expedition 19
First part - 3 crew member (March 2009)
Gennady Padalka , Commander - RSA
Michael Barratt , Flight Engineer 1 - NASA
■Koichi Wakata , Flight Engineer 2 - JAXA
Fourth part - 6 crew member (May to September 2009)
Gennady Padalka , Commander - RSA
Michael Barratt , Flight Engineer 1 - NASA
Nicole Stott , Flight Engineer 2 - NASA
Yuri Lonchakov , Flight Engineer 3 - RSA
Frank De Winne , Flight Engineer 4 - ESA
Robert Thirsk , Flight Engineer 5 - CSA"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedition_19
NASA Assigns Crews for Sts-127 and Expedition 19 Missions
"Their arrival will expand the station's crew size to six for the first time. Lonchakov and De Winne will serve as flight engineers on the station and return on the Soyuz with Stott. Thirsk also will serve as a flight engineer and will return to Earth on STS-129."
http://newsblaze.com/story/20080211120700tsop.nb/newsblaze/TOPSTORY/Top-Stories.html
■シェアによる座席争いッ(^_^;)
12.8%のJAXAと 8.3% ESAの野望(爆)
Once the European Columbus laboratory has been attached to the ISS, ESA will not only be an essential operational partner in the ISS, but will also have a 8.3% share in the station's resources.
The corresponding share in crew time allows ESA to send one European astronaut for a six-month stay on the ISS every second year.
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM9D8QR4CF_index_0.html
金で買ったっていい位 やりたいことあるらしい？
金額次第でロシアは売ってくれるっしょ
だいたい今の一人でさえ ただの保守要員みたいだし・・・
ESA seeks purchase of more ISS astronaut time
"Under the ISS agreement ESA is alloted six months in every 24 months, but it is negotiating with the Italian space agency for use of that country's time on station, accrued through Italy's provision of the multi-purpose logistics module to NASA.
Beyond that, ESA could buy more time with cash. ESA purchased time from the Russians to enable the six-month Astrolab mission that saw German-born European astronaut Thomas Reiter work on ISS from July to December 2006."
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2008/02/07/221301/esa-seeks-purchase-of-more-iss-astronaut-time.html
そういえば、表にある0.45%(^_^;)ブラジルの飛行士ISSに行ってたの思い出した
国際親善かと勝手に思ってた ただじゃないってば(爆)
2.3%のカナダの事情 週単位の滞在(^_^;)
軌道上の力持ちカナダアーム2 いつもご苦労様です
"Thirsk and Julie Payette will be the next Canadians to visit the space station and they will be making their voyages next spring within weeks of each other."
Canadian astronaut's trip to space station will require lots of exercise: The Canadian Press
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5j2qGDJyvQUYkKHuQE91qYiZkNmKA
Expedition 18
October
Launch: Soyuz TMA-13.
NASA - NASA Updates International Space Station Crew Assignments
Expedition 18
Michael Fincke, NASA astronaut (Backup: Michael Barratt)
Salizhan Sharipov, Russian cosmonaut (Backup: Yuri Lonchakov)
Koichi Wakata, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut (Backup: Soichi Noguchi)"
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/jan/HQ_08005_ISS_Crew_Assignments.html
First part (October 2008 to November 2008)
Michael Fincke Commander- NASA
Salizhan Sharipov Flight Engineer, Soyuz Commander - RSA
■Sandra Magnus Flight Engineer - NASA
Second part (November 2008 to April 2009)
■Koichi Wakata Flight Engineer - JAXA"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedition_18
Expedition 18 - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedition_18
Expedition 17
Launch: Soyuz TMA-12
April 8, 2008
Sergei Volkov, Russian cosmonaut (Backup: Maxim Suraev)
Oleg Kononenko, Russian cosmonaut (Backup: Oleg Skripochka)
Gregory Chamitoff, NASA astronaut (Backup: Timothy Kopra)
Sandra Magnus, NASA astronaut (Backup: Nicole Stott)
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/jan/HQ_08005_ISS_Crew_Assignments.html
"Commander Sergei Volkov, Flight Engineer Oleg Kononenko and spaceflight participant San Ko are scheduled to launch to the station on April 8, 2008. Garrett E. Reisman, Gregory E. Chamitoff and Sandra H. Magnus will serve as flight engineers during Expedition 17."
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/index.html
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition17/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedition_17
ESA - Spaceport
"Europe's Spaceport is situated in the northeast of South America in French Guiana, an overseas department of France."
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Launchers_Europe_s_Spaceport/index.html
ESA - Space Science
http://www.esa.int/esaSC/index.html
ESA Portal - Life in Space - Ulysses scores a hat-trick
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMUHTN2UXE_Life_0.html
Satellite Tracker
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Track_ESA_missions/index.html
ESA - Europe's Spaceport Virtual Tour
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Launchers_Europe_s_Spaceport/SEMZ3QWA6QD_0.html
Europe's Guiana Space Center
Guiana's 1st launch of Russian Soyuz rocket delayed_English_Xinhua
"the launch site, which is some 15 kilometers distant from Europe's Ariane 5 launch operations."
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-01/09/content_7393222.htm
Beyond Einstein : From the Big Bang to Black Holes
http://universe.nasa.gov/
Hubble finds double Einstein ring
"News Release - heic0803: Hubble finds double Einstein ring
10-Jan-2008: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a never-before-seen optical alignment in space: a pair of glowing rings, one nestled inside the other like a bull's-eye pattern. The double-ring pattern is caused by the complex bending of light from two distant galaxies strung directly behind a foreground massive galaxy, like three beads on a string."
http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0803.html
"This is an image of gravitational lens system SDSSJ0946+1006 as photographed by Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys. The gravitational field of an elliptical galaxy warps the light of two galaxies exactly behind it. The massive foreground galaxy is almost perfectly aligned in the sky with two background galaxies at different distances. (Credit: NASA, ESA, R. Gavazzi and T. Treu (University of California, Santa Barbara), and the SLACS team)"
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080110102319.htm
Eagle Scouts Certificate
Earth Explorers Series
Earth for Kids
Earth Observatory -- Ask a Scientist
Earth Observing Missions
Earth Observing-1 Mission (EOS-1)
Earth Probe Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer Mission (EP-TOMS)
Earth Science FAQs
Eclipse
e-Education
Education Offices
Education Resources: STS-118
Education TV Schedule
Educator Programs
Educator Resource Centers Network (ERCN)
Elementary Programs
Employment
Engineering Design Challenge: Lunar Plant Growth Chamber
EOS-1 Mission (Earth Observing-1)
EP-TOMS Mission (Earth Probe Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer)
ERCN (Educator Resource Center Network)
Exhibits
Expeditions - Space Station Crews
Experimental Aircraft
Exploration Systems Mission Directorate
Exploration Systems -- Space Biology
Exploration: Then and Now -- NASA and Jamestown Education Module
Exploration, This Month in
Explorer
Exploring the Universe
ISS Daily Reports | Office of Space Operations
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/osf/iss_reports/
ISS Daily Reports | Office of Space Operations
"03/07/08 -- ATV-1 “Jules Verne” launch/Ariane V (Kourou, French Guyana); docking early April
03/11/08 -- STS-123/Endeavour/1J/A launch/1J/A, w/SLP-SPDM, JEM ELM-PS
04/07/08 -- Progress M-63/28P undocking (DC1) & reentry
04/08/08 -- Soyuz TMA-12/16S launch
04/10/08 -- Soyuz TMA-12/16S docking (DC1)
04/19/08 -- Soyuz TMA-11/15S undocking (FGB nadir port)
04/23/08 -- Soyuz TMA-12/16S relocation (from DC1 to FGB nadir port)
04/24/08 -- STS-124/Discovery/1J launch – JEM PM “Kibo”, racks, RMS
04/26/08 -- STS-124/Discovery/1J docking
05/04/08 -- STS-124/Discovery/1J undocking
05/14/08 -- Progress M-64/29P launch
05/16/08 -- Progress M-64/29P docking (DC1)
08/07/08(NET) -- ATV-1 undocking (from SM aft port)
08/12/08 -- Progress M-65/30P launch
08/14/08 -- Progress M-65/30P docking (SM aft port)
09/09/08 -- Progress M-64/29P undocking (from DC1)
09/10/08 -- Progress M-66/31P launch
09/12/08 -- Progress M-66/31P docking (DC1)
09/18/08 -- STS-126/Discovery/ULF2 launch – MPLM Leonardo, LMC
09/20/08 -- STS-126/Discovery/ULF2 docking
10/01/08 -- STS-126/Discovery/ULF2 undocking.
10/01/08 -- NASA 50 Years
10/11/08 -- Progress M-65/30P undocking (from SM aft port)
10/12/08 -- Soyuz TMA-13/17S launch
10/14/08 -- Soyuz TMA-13/17S docking (SM aft port)
10/23/08 -- Soyuz TMA-12/16S undocking (FGB nadir)
11/03/08 -- Soyuz TMA-13/17S relocation (from SM aft to FGB nadir)
11/06/08 -- STS-119/Discovery/15A launch – S6 truss segment
11/08/08 -- STS-119/Discovery/15A docking
11/17/08 -- STS-119/Discovery/15A undocking
11/20/08 -- ISS 10 Years
11/26/08 -- Progress M-67/32P launch
11/28/08 -- Progress M-67/32P docking (SM aft port)
04/15/09 -- Constellation’s Ares I-X Launch
05/??/09 -- Six-person crew on ISS (following Soyuz 18S-2 docking)
04/??/10 -- STS-132/Discovery/20A – Node-3 + Cupola."
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/osf/iss_reports/
Einstein's general theory of relativity in strong gravitational field around a neutron star, quasar OJ 287.
Nature April 20, 2008
"Tests of Einstein's general theory of relativity have mostly been carried out in weak gravitational fields where the space-time curvature effects are first-order deviations from Newton's theory. Binary pulsars4 provide a means of probing the strong gravitational field around a neutron star, but strong-field effects may be best tested in systems containing black holes7, 8. Here we report such a test in a close binary system of two candidate black holes in the quasar OJ 287. This quasar shows quasi-periodic optical outbursts at 12-year intervals, with two outburst peaks per interval9, 10. The latest outburst occurred in September 2007, within a day of the time predicted by the binary black-hole model and general relativity11. "
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v452/n7189/full/nature06896.html;jsessionid=19C9618D21DD07F3A4D87959261224F1
Explorer 1
First U.S. Satellite - NASA JPL
"Explorer 1 was the first satellite launched by the United States when it was sent into space on January 31, 1958. Following the launch of the Soviet Union's Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957, the U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency was directed to launch a satellite using its Jupiter C rocket developed under the direction of Dr. Wernher von Braun. "
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/explorer/history/
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ESA - Space Science
http://www.esa.int/esaSC/index.html
Enceladus動画: Titan's Rival: Scientific American Blog
http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=titans-rival-enceladus-2008-11-19
Enceladusエンケラドス
Ocean on Enceladus May Be Short-Lived :: Astrobiology Magazine - earth science - evolution distribution Origin of life universe - life beyond :: Astrobiology is study of earth science evolution distribution Origin of life in universe terrestrial
"The tide may be changing for the ocean suspected under the icy shell of Enceladus. Recent research has shown that this small moon of Saturn does not produce enough heat in its present configuration to keep water from freezing down to its core."
http://www.astrobio.net/news/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2778&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
土星の衛星タイタンの地下に海が存在か : AFPBB s
"タイタンの密集した大気の流れが自転軸に影響を与え、回転を速めたり遅くしたりしているという説を立てた。だがそれには、タイタンの地下に海流が存在する必要があり、そのため「海が存在する」との推論が導き出されたという。
この分析結果は米科学誌サイエンス（Science）に掲載された。
土星の衛星「エンケラドス（Enceladus）」でも、巨大な間欠泉が観測されていることから、地下に水が存在するとみられている。"
http://www.afpbb.com/article/environment-science-it/science-technology/2369530/2773267
Europa
The next best thing to being there....
Many scientists would love to travel to Europa to study conditions there first-hand, but regular flights to Jupiter probably won't begin for some time. Meanwhile, there is an environment right here on Earth with significant similarities to Europa and Callisto, a place called Lake Vostok.
The frosty plains of Europa
http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast03dec98_1.htm
ESO
"European Organisation for Astronomical Research in theSouthern Hemisphere"
http://www.eso.org/public/
European Science Foundation
http://www.esf.org/
ESA Portal
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/index.html
Planck: Space observatory
LAUNCH DATE Early 2009
Planck will be Europe's first mission
to study Big Bang-relic radiation +
Herschel: Space observatory
LAUNCH DATE Early 2009
The largest space telescope of its type when launched
LISA Pathfinder: Space observatory (technology proof)
A vital 'precursor' mission to test technologies for LISA, a joint ESA/NASA orbiting gravity wave detector +
LAUNCH DATE 1 Mar 2010
Gaia:Space observatory
LAUNCH DATE Dec 2011
NOMINAL MISSION Five years
Will generate the most precise-ever 3D map of our Galaxy by surveying over 1 thousand million stars and potentially discovering hundreds of thousands of new objects, such as extra-solar planets
ESA Spacecraft Operations - Astronomy & fundamental physics missions
http://www.esa.int/esaMI/Operations/SEMASB8ZMRE_0.html
ESTEC
European Space Research and Technology Centre
ヨーロッパ宇宙機関
European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC)
"ESA has sites in several European countries.
The European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), the largest site and the technical heart of ESA ― the incubator of the European space effort ― is in Noordwijk, The Netherlands." - ESA Portal
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMOMQ374OD_index_0.html
Exoplanets.org
http://exoplanets.org/
First Picture of Likely Planet around Sun-like Star | Gemini Observatory
http://www.gemini.edu/sunstarplanet
恒星のそばに小さな点 初めて写った系外惑星か
http://www.astroarts.co.jp/news/2008/09/17planet_image/
Three "Super-Earths" Found Orbiting Sun-Like Star
The planets orbiting the star HD 40307―which is 42 light-years away―were found using an advanced "planet searcher" instrument at the European Southern Observatory in La Silla, Chile, the French and Swiss astronomers said.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/080616-super-earths.html
Expedition 19
JAXA Astronaut Activity Report:
http://iss.jaxa.jp/en/astro/report/index.html
JAXA宇宙飛行士活動レポート:
http://iss.jaxa.jp/astro/report/index.html
Expedition 19 will double the size of the resident crew on the complex, expanding it to six people.
On February 11, NASA announced the official crew for Expedition 19
First part - 3 crew member (March 2009)
Gennady Padalka , Commander - RSA
Michael Barratt , Flight Engineer 1 - NASA
■Koichi Wakata , Flight Engineer 2 - JAXA
Fourth part - 6 crew member (May to September 2009)
Gennady Padalka , Commander - RSA
Michael Barratt , Flight Engineer 1 - NASA
Nicole Stott , Flight Engineer 2 - NASA
Yuri Lonchakov , Flight Engineer 3 - RSA
Frank De Winne , Flight Engineer 4 - ESA
Robert Thirsk , Flight Engineer 5 - CSA"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedition_19
NASA Assigns Crews for Sts-127 and Expedition 19 Missions
"Their arrival will expand the station's crew size to six for the first time. Lonchakov and De Winne will serve as flight engineers on the station and return on the Soyuz with Stott. Thirsk also will serve as a flight engineer and will return to Earth on STS-129."
http://newsblaze.com/story/20080211120700tsop.nb/newsblaze/TOPSTORY/Top-Stories.html
■シェアによる座席争いッ(^_^;)
12.8%のJAXAと 8.3% ESAの野望(爆)
Once the European Columbus laboratory has been attached to the ISS, ESA will not only be an essential operational partner in the ISS, but will also have a 8.3% share in the station's resources.
The corresponding share in crew time allows ESA to send one European astronaut for a six-month stay on the ISS every second year.
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM9D8QR4CF_index_0.html
金で買ったっていい位 やりたいことあるらしい？
金額次第でロシアは売ってくれるっしょ
だいたい今の一人でさえ ただの保守要員みたいだし・・・
ESA seeks purchase of more ISS astronaut time
"Under the ISS agreement ESA is alloted six months in every 24 months, but it is negotiating with the Italian space agency for use of that country's time on station, accrued through Italy's provision of the multi-purpose logistics module to NASA.
Beyond that, ESA could buy more time with cash. ESA purchased time from the Russians to enable the six-month Astrolab mission that saw German-born European astronaut Thomas Reiter work on ISS from July to December 2006."
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2008/02/07/221301/esa-seeks-purchase-of-more-iss-astronaut-time.html
そういえば、表にある0.45%(^_^;)ブラジルの飛行士ISSに行ってたの思い出した
国際親善かと勝手に思ってた ただじゃないってば(爆)
2.3%のカナダの事情 週単位の滞在(^_^;)
軌道上の力持ちカナダアーム2 いつもご苦労様です
"Thirsk and Julie Payette will be the next Canadians to visit the space station and they will be making their voyages next spring within weeks of each other."
Canadian astronaut's trip to space station will require lots of exercise: The Canadian Press
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5j2qGDJyvQUYkKHuQE91qYiZkNmKA
Expedition 18
October
Launch: Soyuz TMA-13.
NASA - NASA Updates International Space Station Crew Assignments
Expedition 18
Michael Fincke, NASA astronaut (Backup: Michael Barratt)
Salizhan Sharipov, Russian cosmonaut (Backup: Yuri Lonchakov)
Koichi Wakata, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut (Backup: Soichi Noguchi)"
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/jan/HQ_08005_ISS_Crew_Assignments.html
First part (October 2008 to November 2008)
Michael Fincke Commander- NASA
Salizhan Sharipov Flight Engineer, Soyuz Commander - RSA
■Sandra Magnus Flight Engineer - NASA
Second part (November 2008 to April 2009)
■Koichi Wakata Flight Engineer - JAXA"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedition_18
Expedition 18 - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedition_18
Expedition 17
Launch: Soyuz TMA-12
April 8, 2008
Sergei Volkov, Russian cosmonaut (Backup: Maxim Suraev)
Oleg Kononenko, Russian cosmonaut (Backup: Oleg Skripochka)
Gregory Chamitoff, NASA astronaut (Backup: Timothy Kopra)
Sandra Magnus, NASA astronaut (Backup: Nicole Stott)
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/jan/HQ_08005_ISS_Crew_Assignments.html
"Commander Sergei Volkov, Flight Engineer Oleg Kononenko and spaceflight participant San Ko are scheduled to launch to the station on April 8, 2008. Garrett E. Reisman, Gregory E. Chamitoff and Sandra H. Magnus will serve as flight engineers during Expedition 17."
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/index.html
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition17/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedition_17
ESA - Spaceport
"Europe's Spaceport is situated in the northeast of South America in French Guiana, an overseas department of France."
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Launchers_Europe_s_Spaceport/index.html
ESA - Space Science
http://www.esa.int/esaSC/index.html
ESA Portal - Life in Space - Ulysses scores a hat-trick
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMUHTN2UXE_Life_0.html
Satellite Tracker
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Track_ESA_missions/index.html
ESA - Europe's Spaceport Virtual Tour
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Launchers_Europe_s_Spaceport/SEMZ3QWA6QD_0.html
Europe's Guiana Space Center
Guiana's 1st launch of Russian Soyuz rocket delayed_English_Xinhua
"the launch site, which is some 15 kilometers distant from Europe's Ariane 5 launch operations."
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-01/09/content_7393222.htm
Beyond Einstein : From the Big Bang to Black Holes
http://universe.nasa.gov/
Hubble finds double Einstein ring
"News Release - heic0803: Hubble finds double Einstein ring
10-Jan-2008: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a never-before-seen optical alignment in space: a pair of glowing rings, one nestled inside the other like a bull's-eye pattern. The double-ring pattern is caused by the complex bending of light from two distant galaxies strung directly behind a foreground massive galaxy, like three beads on a string."
http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0803.html
"This is an image of gravitational lens system SDSSJ0946+1006 as photographed by Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys. The gravitational field of an elliptical galaxy warps the light of two galaxies exactly behind it. The massive foreground galaxy is almost perfectly aligned in the sky with two background galaxies at different distances. (Credit: NASA, ESA, R. Gavazzi and T. Treu (University of California, Santa Barbara), and the SLACS team)"
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080110102319.htm
Eagle Scouts Certificate
Earth Explorers Series
Earth for Kids
Earth Observatory -- Ask a Scientist
Earth Observing Missions
Earth Observing-1 Mission (EOS-1)
Earth Probe Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer Mission (EP-TOMS)
Earth Science FAQs
Eclipse
e-Education
Education Offices
Education Resources: STS-118
Education TV Schedule
Educator Programs
Educator Resource Centers Network (ERCN)
Elementary Programs
Employment
Engineering Design Challenge: Lunar Plant Growth Chamber
EOS-1 Mission (Earth Observing-1)
EP-TOMS Mission (Earth Probe Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer)
ERCN (Educator Resource Center Network)
Exhibits
Expeditions - Space Station Crews
Experimental Aircraft
Exploration Systems Mission Directorate
Exploration Systems -- Space Biology
Exploration: Then and Now -- NASA and Jamestown Education Module
Exploration, This Month in
Explorer
Exploring the Universe
ISS Daily Reports | Office of Space Operations
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/osf/iss_reports/
ISS Daily Reports | Office of Space Operations
"03/07/08 -- ATV-1 “Jules Verne” launch/Ariane V (Kourou, French Guyana); docking early April
03/11/08 -- STS-123/Endeavour/1J/A launch/1J/A, w/SLP-SPDM, JEM ELM-PS
04/07/08 -- Progress M-63/28P undocking (DC1) & reentry
04/08/08 -- Soyuz TMA-12/16S launch
04/10/08 -- Soyuz TMA-12/16S docking (DC1)
04/19/08 -- Soyuz TMA-11/15S undocking (FGB nadir port)
04/23/08 -- Soyuz TMA-12/16S relocation (from DC1 to FGB nadir port)
04/24/08 -- STS-124/Discovery/1J launch – JEM PM “Kibo”, racks, RMS
04/26/08 -- STS-124/Discovery/1J docking
05/04/08 -- STS-124/Discovery/1J undocking
05/14/08 -- Progress M-64/29P launch
05/16/08 -- Progress M-64/29P docking (DC1)
08/07/08(NET) -- ATV-1 undocking (from SM aft port)
08/12/08 -- Progress M-65/30P launch
08/14/08 -- Progress M-65/30P docking (SM aft port)
09/09/08 -- Progress M-64/29P undocking (from DC1)
09/10/08 -- Progress M-66/31P launch
09/12/08 -- Progress M-66/31P docking (DC1)
09/18/08 -- STS-126/Discovery/ULF2 launch – MPLM Leonardo, LMC
09/20/08 -- STS-126/Discovery/ULF2 docking
10/01/08 -- STS-126/Discovery/ULF2 undocking.
10/01/08 -- NASA 50 Years
10/11/08 -- Progress M-65/30P undocking (from SM aft port)
10/12/08 -- Soyuz TMA-13/17S launch
10/14/08 -- Soyuz TMA-13/17S docking (SM aft port)
10/23/08 -- Soyuz TMA-12/16S undocking (FGB nadir)
11/03/08 -- Soyuz TMA-13/17S relocation (from SM aft to FGB nadir)
11/06/08 -- STS-119/Discovery/15A launch – S6 truss segment
11/08/08 -- STS-119/Discovery/15A docking
11/17/08 -- STS-119/Discovery/15A undocking
11/20/08 -- ISS 10 Years
11/26/08 -- Progress M-67/32P launch
11/28/08 -- Progress M-67/32P docking (SM aft port)
04/15/09 -- Constellation’s Ares I-X Launch
05/??/09 -- Six-person crew on ISS (following Soyuz 18S-2 docking)
04/??/10 -- STS-132/Discovery/20A – Node-3 + Cupola."
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/osf/iss_reports/
Einstein's general theory of relativity in strong gravitational field around a neutron star, quasar OJ 287.
Nature April 20, 2008
"Tests of Einstein's general theory of relativity have mostly been carried out in weak gravitational fields where the space-time curvature effects are first-order deviations from Newton's theory. Binary pulsars4 provide a means of probing the strong gravitational field around a neutron star, but strong-field effects may be best tested in systems containing black holes7, 8. Here we report such a test in a close binary system of two candidate black holes in the quasar OJ 287. This quasar shows quasi-periodic optical outbursts at 12-year intervals, with two outburst peaks per interval9, 10. The latest outburst occurred in September 2007, within a day of the time predicted by the binary black-hole model and general relativity11. "
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v452/n7189/full/nature06896.html;jsessionid=19C9618D21DD07F3A4D87959261224F1
Explorer 1
First U.S. Satellite - NASA JPL
"Explorer 1 was the first satellite launched by the United States when it was sent into space on January 31, 1958. Following the launch of the Soviet Union's Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957, the U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency was directed to launch a satellite using its Jupiter C rocket developed under the direction of Dr. Wernher von Braun. "
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/explorer/history/
E
ESA - Space Science
http://www.esa.int/esaSC/index.html
Enceladus動画: Titan's Rival: Scientific American Blog
http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=titans-rival-enceladus-2008-11-19
Enceladusエンケラドス
Ocean on Enceladus May Be Short-Lived :: Astrobiology Magazine - earth science - evolution distribution Origin of life universe - life beyond :: Astrobiology is study of earth science evolution distribution Origin of life in universe terrestrial
"The tide may be changing for the ocean suspected under the icy shell of Enceladus. Recent research has shown that this small moon of Saturn does not produce enough heat in its present configuration to keep water from freezing down to its core."
http://www.astrobio.net/news/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2778&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
土星の衛星タイタンの地下に海が存在か : AFPBB s
"タイタンの密集した大気の流れが自転軸に影響を与え、回転を速めたり遅くしたりしているという説を立てた。だがそれには、タイタンの地下に海流が存在する必要があり、そのため「海が存在する」との推論が導き出されたという。
この分析結果は米科学誌サイエンス（Science）に掲載された。
土星の衛星「エンケラドス（Enceladus）」でも、巨大な間欠泉が観測されていることから、地下に水が存在するとみられている。"
http://www.afpbb.com/article/environment-science-it/science-technology/2369530/2773267
Europa
The next best thing to being there....
Many scientists would love to travel to Europa to study conditions there first-hand, but regular flights to Jupiter probably won't begin for some time. Meanwhile, there is an environment right here on Earth with significant similarities to Europa and Callisto, a place called Lake Vostok.
The frosty plains of Europa
http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast03dec98_1.htm
ESO
"European Organisation for Astronomical Research in theSouthern Hemisphere"
http://www.eso.org/public/
European Science Foundation
http://www.esf.org/
ESA Portal
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/index.html
Planck: Space observatory
LAUNCH DATE Early 2009
Planck will be Europe's first mission
to study Big Bang-relic radiation +
Herschel: Space observatory
LAUNCH DATE Early 2009
The largest space telescope of its type when launched
LISA Pathfinder: Space observatory (technology proof)
A vital 'precursor' mission to test technologies for LISA, a joint ESA/NASA orbiting gravity wave detector +
LAUNCH DATE 1 Mar 2010
Gaia:Space observatory
LAUNCH DATE Dec 2011
NOMINAL MISSION Five years
Will generate the most precise-ever 3D map of our Galaxy by surveying over 1 thousand million stars and potentially discovering hundreds of thousands of new objects, such as extra-solar planets
ESA Spacecraft Operations - Astronomy & fundamental physics missions
http://www.esa.int/esaMI/Operations/SEMASB8ZMRE_0.html
ESTEC
European Space Research and Technology Centre
ヨーロッパ宇宙機関
European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC)
"ESA has sites in several European countries.
The European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), the largest site and the technical heart of ESA ― the incubator of the European space effort ― is in Noordwijk, The Netherlands." - ESA Portal
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMOMQ374OD_index_0.html
Exoplanets.org
http://exoplanets.org/
First Picture of Likely Planet around Sun-like Star | Gemini Observatory
http://www.gemini.edu/sunstarplanet
恒星のそばに小さな点 初めて写った系外惑星か
http://www.astroarts.co.jp/news/2008/09/17planet_image/
Three "Super-Earths" Found Orbiting Sun-Like Star
The planets orbiting the star HD 40307―which is 42 light-years away―were found using an advanced "planet searcher" instrument at the European Southern Observatory in La Silla, Chile, the French and Swiss astronomers said.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/080616-super-earths.html
Expedition 19
JAXA Astronaut Activity Report:
http://iss.jaxa.jp/en/astro/report/index.html
JAXA宇宙飛行士活動レポート:
http://iss.jaxa.jp/astro/report/index.html
Expedition 19 will double the size of the resident crew on the complex, expanding it to six people.
On February 11, NASA announced the official crew for Expedition 19
First part - 3 crew member (March 2009)
Gennady Padalka , Commander - RSA
Michael Barratt , Flight Engineer 1 - NASA
■Koichi Wakata , Flight Engineer 2 - JAXA
Fourth part - 6 crew member (May to September 2009)
Gennady Padalka , Commander - RSA
Michael Barratt , Flight Engineer 1 - NASA
Nicole Stott , Flight Engineer 2 - NASA
Yuri Lonchakov , Flight Engineer 3 - RSA
Frank De Winne , Flight Engineer 4 - ESA
Robert Thirsk , Flight Engineer 5 - CSA"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedition_19
NASA Assigns Crews for Sts-127 and Expedition 19 Missions
"Their arrival will expand the station's crew size to six for the first time. Lonchakov and De Winne will serve as flight engineers on the station and return on the Soyuz with Stott. Thirsk also will serve as a flight engineer and will return to Earth on STS-129."
http://newsblaze.com/story/20080211120700tsop.nb/newsblaze/TOPSTORY/Top-Stories.html
■シェアによる座席争いッ(^_^;)
12.8%のJAXAと 8.3% ESAの野望(爆)
Once the European Columbus laboratory has been attached to the ISS, ESA will not only be an essential operational partner in the ISS, but will also have a 8.3% share in the station's resources.
The corresponding share in crew time allows ESA to send one European astronaut for a six-month stay on the ISS every second year.
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM9D8QR4CF_index_0.html
金で買ったっていい位 やりたいことあるらしい？
金額次第でロシアは売ってくれるっしょ
だいたい今の一人でさえ ただの保守要員みたいだし・・・
ESA seeks purchase of more ISS astronaut time
"Under the ISS agreement ESA is alloted six months in every 24 months, but it is negotiating with the Italian space agency for use of that country's time on station, accrued through Italy's provision of the multi-purpose logistics module to NASA.
Beyond that, ESA could buy more time with cash. ESA purchased time from the Russians to enable the six-month Astrolab mission that saw German-born European astronaut Thomas Reiter work on ISS from July to December 2006."
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2008/02/07/221301/esa-seeks-purchase-of-more-iss-astronaut-time.html
そういえば、表にある0.45%(^_^;)ブラジルの飛行士ISSに行ってたの思い出した
国際親善かと勝手に思ってた ただじゃないってば(爆)
2.3%のカナダの事情 週単位の滞在(^_^;)
軌道上の力持ちカナダアーム2 いつもご苦労様です
"Thirsk and Julie Payette will be the next Canadians to visit the space station and they will be making their voyages next spring within weeks of each other."
Canadian astronaut's trip to space station will require lots of exercise: The Canadian Press
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5j2qGDJyvQUYkKHuQE91qYiZkNmKA
Expedition 18
October
Launch: Soyuz TMA-13.
NASA - NASA Updates International Space Station Crew Assignments
Expedition 18
Michael Fincke, NASA astronaut (Backup: Michael Barratt)
Salizhan Sharipov, Russian cosmonaut (Backup: Yuri Lonchakov)
Koichi Wakata, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut (Backup: Soichi Noguchi)"
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/jan/HQ_08005_ISS_Crew_Assignments.html
First part (October 2008 to November 2008)
Michael Fincke Commander- NASA
Salizhan Sharipov Flight Engineer, Soyuz Commander - RSA
■Sandra Magnus Flight Engineer - NASA
Second part (November 2008 to April 2009)
■Koichi Wakata Flight Engineer - JAXA"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedition_18
Expedition 18 - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedition_18
Expedition 17
Launch: Soyuz TMA-12
April 8, 2008
Sergei Volkov, Russian cosmonaut (Backup: Maxim Suraev)
Oleg Kononenko, Russian cosmonaut (Backup: Oleg Skripochka)
Gregory Chamitoff, NASA astronaut (Backup: Timothy Kopra)
Sandra Magnus, NASA astronaut (Backup: Nicole Stott)
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/jan/HQ_08005_ISS_Crew_Assignments.html
"Commander Sergei Volkov, Flight Engineer Oleg Kononenko and spaceflight participant San Ko are scheduled to launch to the station on April 8, 2008. Garrett E. Reisman, Gregory E. Chamitoff and Sandra H. Magnus will serve as flight engineers during Expedition 17."
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/index.html
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition17/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedition_17
ESA - Spaceport
"Europe's Spaceport is situated in the northeast of South America in French Guiana, an overseas department of France."
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Launchers_Europe_s_Spaceport/index.html
ESA - Space Science
http://www.esa.int/esaSC/index.html
ESA Portal - Life in Space - Ulysses scores a hat-trick
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMUHTN2UXE_Life_0.html
Satellite Tracker
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Track_ESA_missions/index.html
ESA - Europe's Spaceport Virtual Tour
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Launchers_Europe_s_Spaceport/SEMZ3QWA6QD_0.html
Europe's Guiana Space Center
Guiana's 1st launch of Russian Soyuz rocket delayed_English_Xinhua
"the launch site, which is some 15 kilometers distant from Europe's Ariane 5 launch operations."
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-01/09/content_7393222.htm
Beyond Einstein : From the Big Bang to Black Holes
http://universe.nasa.gov/
Hubble finds double Einstein ring
"News Release - heic0803: Hubble finds double Einstein ring
10-Jan-2008: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a never-before-seen optical alignment in space: a pair of glowing rings, one nestled inside the other like a bull's-eye pattern. The double-ring pattern is caused by the complex bending of light from two distant galaxies strung directly behind a foreground massive galaxy, like three beads on a string."
http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0803.html
"This is an image of gravitational lens system SDSSJ0946+1006 as photographed by Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys. The gravitational field of an elliptical galaxy warps the light of two galaxies exactly behind it. The massive foreground galaxy is almost perfectly aligned in the sky with two background galaxies at different distances. (Credit: NASA, ESA, R. Gavazzi and T. Treu (University of California, Santa Barbara), and the SLACS team)"
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080110102319.htm
Eagle Scouts Certificate
Earth Explorers Series
Earth for Kids
Earth Observatory -- Ask a Scientist
Earth Observing Missions
Earth Observing-1 Mission (EOS-1)
Earth Probe Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer Mission (EP-TOMS)
Earth Science FAQs
Eclipse
e-Education
Education Offices
Education Resources: STS-118
Education TV Schedule
Educator Programs
Educator Resource Centers Network (ERCN)
Elementary Programs
Employment
Engineering Design Challenge: Lunar Plant Growth Chamber
EOS-1 Mission (Earth Observing-1)
EP-TOMS Mission (Earth Probe Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer)
ERCN (Educator Resource Center Network)
Exhibits
Expeditions - Space Station Crews
Experimental Aircraft
Exploration Systems Mission Directorate
Exploration Systems -- Space Biology
Exploration: Then and Now -- NASA and Jamestown Education Module
Exploration, This Month in
Explorer
Exploring the Universe
ISS Daily Reports | Office of Space Operations
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/osf/iss_reports/
ISS Daily Reports | Office of Space Operations
"03/07/08 -- ATV-1 “Jules Verne” launch/Ariane V (Kourou, French Guyana); docking early April
03/11/08 -- STS-123/Endeavour/1J/A launch/1J/A, w/SLP-SPDM, JEM ELM-PS
04/07/08 -- Progress M-63/28P undocking (DC1) & reentry
04/08/08 -- Soyuz TMA-12/16S launch
04/10/08 -- Soyuz TMA-12/16S docking (DC1)
04/19/08 -- Soyuz TMA-11/15S undocking (FGB nadir port)
04/23/08 -- Soyuz TMA-12/16S relocation (from DC1 to FGB nadir port)
04/24/08 -- STS-124/Discovery/1J launch – JEM PM “Kibo”, racks, RMS
04/26/08 -- STS-124/Discovery/1J docking
05/04/08 -- STS-124/Discovery/1J undocking
05/14/08 -- Progress M-64/29P launch
05/16/08 -- Progress M-64/29P docking (DC1)
08/07/08(NET) -- ATV-1 undocking (from SM aft port)
08/12/08 -- Progress M-65/30P launch
08/14/08 -- Progress M-65/30P docking (SM aft port)
09/09/08 -- Progress M-64/29P undocking (from DC1)
09/10/08 -- Progress M-66/31P launch
09/12/08 -- Progress M-66/31P docking (DC1)
09/18/08 -- STS-126/Discovery/ULF2 launch – MPLM Leonardo, LMC
09/20/08 -- STS-126/Discovery/ULF2 docking
10/01/08 -- STS-126/Discovery/ULF2 undocking.
10/01/08 -- NASA 50 Years
10/11/08 -- Progress M-65/30P undocking (from SM aft port)
10/12/08 -- Soyuz TMA-13/17S launch
10/14/08 -- Soyuz TMA-13/17S docking (SM aft port)
10/23/08 -- Soyuz TMA-12/16S undocking (FGB nadir)
11/03/08 -- Soyuz TMA-13/17S relocation (from SM aft to FGB nadir)
11/06/08 -- STS-119/Discovery/15A launch – S6 truss segment
11/08/08 -- STS-119/Discovery/15A docking
11/17/08 -- STS-119/Discovery/15A undocking
11/20/08 -- ISS 10 Years
11/26/08 -- Progress M-67/32P launch
11/28/08 -- Progress M-67/32P docking (SM aft port)
04/15/09 -- Constellation’s Ares I-X Launch
05/??/09 -- Six-person crew on ISS (following Soyuz 18S-2 docking)
04/??/10 -- STS-132/Discovery/20A – Node-3 + Cupola."
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/osf/iss_reports/
Einstein's general theory of relativity in strong gravitational field around a neutron star, quasar OJ 287.
Nature April 20, 2008
"Tests of Einstein's general theory of relativity have mostly been carried out in weak gravitational fields where the space-time curvature effects are first-order deviations from Newton's theory. Binary pulsars4 provide a means of probing the strong gravitational field around a neutron star, but strong-field effects may be best tested in systems containing black holes7, 8. Here we report such a test in a close binary system of two candidate black holes in the quasar OJ 287. This quasar shows quasi-periodic optical outbursts at 12-year intervals, with two outburst peaks per interval9, 10. The latest outburst occurred in September 2007, within a day of the time predicted by the binary black-hole model and general relativity11. "
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v452/n7189/full/nature06896.html;jsessionid=19C9618D21DD07F3A4D87959261224F1
Explorer 1
First U.S. Satellite - NASA JPL
"Explorer 1 was the first satellite launched by the United States when it was sent into space on January 31, 1958. Following the launch of the Soviet Union's Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957, the U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency was directed to launch a satellite using its Jupiter C rocket developed under the direction of Dr. Wernher von Braun. "
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/explorer/history/
E
ESA - Space Science
http://www.esa.int/esaSC/index.html
Enceladus動画: Titan's Rival: Scientific American Blog
http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=titans-rival-enceladus-2008-11-19
Enceladusエンケラドス
Ocean on Enceladus May Be Short-Lived :: Astrobiology Magazine - earth science - evolution distribution Origin of life universe - life beyond :: Astrobiology is study of earth science evolution distribution Origin of life in universe terrestrial
"The tide may be changing for the ocean suspected under the icy shell of Enceladus. Recent research has shown that this small moon of Saturn does not produce enough heat in its present configuration to keep water from freezing down to its core."
http://www.astrobio.net/news/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2778&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
土星の衛星タイタンの地下に海が存在か : AFPBB s
"タイタンの密集した大気の流れが自転軸に影響を与え、回転を速めたり遅くしたりしているという説を立てた。だがそれには、タイタンの地下に海流が存在する必要があり、そのため「海が存在する」との推論が導き出されたという。
この分析結果は米科学誌サイエンス（Science）に掲載された。
土星の衛星「エンケラドス（Enceladus）」でも、巨大な間欠泉が観測されていることから、地下に水が存在するとみられている。"
http://www.afpbb.com/article/environment-science-it/science-technology/2369530/2773267
Europa
The next best thing to being there....
Many scientists would love to travel to Europa to study conditions there first-hand, but regular flights to Jupiter probably won't begin for some time. Meanwhile, there is an environment right here on Earth with significant similarities to Europa and Callisto, a place called Lake Vostok.
The frosty plains of Europa
http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast03dec98_1.htm
ESO
"European Organisation for Astronomical Research in theSouthern Hemisphere"
http://www.eso.org/public/
European Science Foundation
http://www.esf.org/
ESA Portal
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/index.html
Planck: Space observatory
LAUNCH DATE Early 2009
Planck will be Europe's first mission
to study Big Bang-relic radiation +
Herschel: Space observatory
LAUNCH DATE Early 2009
The largest space telescope of its type when launched
LISA Pathfinder: Space observatory (technology proof)
A vital 'precursor' mission to test technologies for LISA, a joint ESA/NASA orbiting gravity wave detector +
LAUNCH DATE 1 Mar 2010
Gaia:Space observatory
LAUNCH DATE Dec 2011
NOMINAL MISSION Five years
Will generate the most precise-ever 3D map of our Galaxy by surveying over 1 thousand million stars and potentially discovering hundreds of thousands of new objects, such as extra-solar planets
ESA Spacecraft Operations - Astronomy & fundamental physics missions
http://www.esa.int/esaMI/Operations/SEMASB8ZMRE_0.html
ESTEC
European Space Research and Technology Centre
ヨーロッパ宇宙機関
European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC)
"ESA has sites in several European countries.
The European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), the largest site and the technical heart of ESA ― the incubator of the European space effort ― is in Noordwijk, The Netherlands." - ESA Portal
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMOMQ374OD_index_0.html
Exoplanets.org
http://exoplanets.org/
First Picture of Likely Planet around Sun-like Star | Gemini Observatory
http://www.gemini.edu/sunstarplanet
恒星のそばに小さな点 初めて写った系外惑星か
http://www.astroarts.co.jp/news/2008/09/17planet_image/
Three "Super-Earths" Found Orbiting Sun-Like Star
The planets orbiting the star HD 40307―which is 42 light-years away―were found using an advanced "planet searcher" instrument at the European Southern Observatory in La Silla, Chile, the French and Swiss astronomers said.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/080616-super-earths.html
Expedition 19
JAXA Astronaut Activity Report:
http://iss.jaxa.jp/en/astro/report/index.html
JAXA宇宙飛行士活動レポート:
http://iss.jaxa.jp/astro/report/index.html
Expedition 19 will double the size of the resident crew on the complex, expanding it to six people.
On February 11, NASA announced the official crew for Expedition 19
First part - 3 crew member (March 2009)
Gennady Padalka , Commander - RSA
Michael Barratt , Flight Engineer 1 - NASA
■Koichi Wakata , Flight Engineer 2 - JAXA
Fourth part - 6 crew member (May to September 2009)
Gennady Padalka , Commander - RSA
Michael Barratt , Flight Engineer 1 - NASA
Nicole Stott , Flight Engineer 2 - NASA
Yuri Lonchakov , Flight Engineer 3 - RSA
Frank De Winne , Flight Engineer 4 - ESA
Robert Thirsk , Flight Engineer 5 - CSA"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedition_19
NASA Assigns Crews for Sts-127 and Expedition 19 Missions
"Their arrival will expand the station's crew size to six for the first time. Lonchakov and De Winne will serve as flight engineers on the station and return on the Soyuz with Stott. Thirsk also will serve as a flight engineer and will return to Earth on STS-129."
http://newsblaze.com/story/20080211120700tsop.nb/newsblaze/TOPSTORY/Top-Stories.html
■シェアによる座席争いッ(^_^;)
12.8%のJAXAと 8.3% ESAの野望(爆)
Once the European Columbus laboratory has been attached to the ISS, ESA will not only be an essential operational partner in the ISS, but will also have a 8.3% share in the station's resources.
The corresponding share in crew time allows ESA to send one European astronaut for a six-month stay on the ISS every second year.
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM9D8QR4CF_index_0.html
金で買ったっていい位 やりたいことあるらしい？
金額次第でロシアは売ってくれるっしょ
だいたい今の一人でさえ ただの保守要員みたいだし・・・
ESA seeks purchase of more ISS astronaut time
"Under the ISS agreement ESA is alloted six months in every 24 months, but it is negotiating with the Italian space agency for use of that country's time on station, accrued through Italy's provision of the multi-purpose logistics module to NASA.
Beyond that, ESA could buy more time with cash. ESA purchased time from the Russians to enable the six-month Astrolab mission that saw German-born European astronaut Thomas Reiter work on ISS from July to December 2006."
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2008/02/07/221301/esa-seeks-purchase-of-more-iss-astronaut-time.html
そういえば、表にある0.45%(^_^;)ブラジルの飛行士ISSに行ってたの思い出した
国際親善かと勝手に思ってた ただじゃないってば(爆)
2.3%のカナダの事情 週単位の滞在(^_^;)
軌道上の力持ちカナダアーム2 いつもご苦労様です
"Thirsk and Julie Payette will be the next Canadians to visit the space station and they will be making their voyages next spring within weeks of each other."
Canadian astronaut's trip to space station will require lots of exercise: The Canadian Press
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5j2qGDJyvQUYkKHuQE91qYiZkNmKA
Expedition 18
October
Launch: Soyuz TMA-13.
NASA - NASA Updates International Space Station Crew Assignments
Expedition 18
Michael Fincke, NASA astronaut (Backup: Michael Barratt)
Salizhan Sharipov, Russian cosmonaut (Backup: Yuri Lonchakov)
Koichi Wakata, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut (Backup: Soichi Noguchi)"
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/jan/HQ_08005_ISS_Crew_Assignments.html
First part (October 2008 to November 2008)
Michael Fincke Commander- NASA
Salizhan Sharipov Flight Engineer, Soyuz Commander - RSA
■Sandra Magnus Flight Engineer - NASA
Second part (November 2008 to April 2009)
■Koichi Wakata Flight Engineer - JAXA"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedition_18
Expedition 18 - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedition_18
Expedition 17
Launch: Soyuz TMA-12
April 8, 2008
Sergei Volkov, Russian cosmonaut (Backup: Maxim Suraev)
Oleg Kononenko, Russian cosmonaut (Backup: Oleg Skripochka)
Gregory Chamitoff, NASA astronaut (Backup: Timothy Kopra)
Sandra Magnus, NASA astronaut (Backup: Nicole Stott)
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/jan/HQ_08005_ISS_Crew_Assignments.html
"Commander Sergei Volkov, Flight Engineer Oleg Kononenko and spaceflight participant San Ko are scheduled to launch to the station on April 8, 2008. Garrett E. Reisman, Gregory E. Chamitoff and Sandra H. Magnus will serve as flight engineers during Expedition 17."
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/index.html
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition17/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedition_17
ESA - Spaceport
"Europe's Spaceport is situated in the northeast of South America in French Guiana, an overseas department of France."
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Launchers_Europe_s_Spaceport/index.html
ESA - Space Science
http://www.esa.int/esaSC/index.html
ESA Portal - Life in Space - Ulysses scores a hat-trick
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMUHTN2UXE_Life_0.html
Satellite Tracker
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Track_ESA_missions/index.html
ESA - Europe's Spaceport Virtual Tour
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Launchers_Europe_s_Spaceport/SEMZ3QWA6QD_0.html
Europe's Guiana Space Center
Guiana's 1st launch of Russian Soyuz rocket delayed_English_Xinhua
"the launch site, which is some 15 kilometers distant from Europe's Ariane 5 launch operations."
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-01/09/content_7393222.htm
Beyond Einstein : From the Big Bang to Black Holes
http://universe.nasa.gov/
Hubble finds double Einstein ring
"News Release - heic0803: Hubble finds double Einstein ring
10-Jan-2008: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a never-before-seen optical alignment in space: a pair of glowing rings, one nestled inside the other like a bull's-eye pattern. The double-ring pattern is caused by the complex bending of light from two distant galaxies strung directly behind a foreground massive galaxy, like three beads on a string."
http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0803.html
"This is an image of gravitational lens system SDSSJ0946+1006 as photographed by Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys. The gravitational field of an elliptical galaxy warps the light of two galaxies exactly behind it. The massive foreground galaxy is almost perfectly aligned in the sky with two background galaxies at different distances. (Credit: NASA, ESA, R. Gavazzi and T. Treu (University of California, Santa Barbara), and the SLACS team)"
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080110102319.htm
Eagle Scouts Certifica
