Hubble Finds Double Einstein Ring
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
Such stunning cosmic coincidences reveal so much about nature. Dark matter is not hidden to lensing,”
“The elegance of this lens is trumped only by the secrets of nature that it reveals.”
The massive foreground galaxy is almost perfectly aligned in the sky with two background galaxies at different distances.
The foreground galaxy is 3 billion light-years away.
The inner ring and outer ring are comprised of multiple images of two galaxies at a distance of 6 billion and approximately 11 billion light-years.
"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
Jet Power and Black Hole Assortment Revealed in New Chandra Image :: 09 Jan 08
Centurus A
A dramatic new Chandra image of the nearby galaxy Centaurus A provides one of the best views to date of the effects of an active supermassive black hole. Opposing jets of high-energy particles can be seen extending to the outer reaches of the galaxy, and numerous smaller black holes in binary star systems are also visible.A prominent X-ray jet extending for 13,000 light years
points to the upper left in the image, with a shorter "counterjet" aimed in the opposite direction."
http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/08_releases/press_010908.html
quasar known as OJ287
Astronomers Measure Largest Black Hole As 18 Billion Times Bigger Than Sun | January 11, 2008 | AHN
the largest black hole as 18 billion times bigger than the sun.
"quasar known as OJ287 on Wednesday at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Austin, Texas.
The quasar, 3.5 billion light-years from Earth in the constellation Cancer.
In 1994, astronomers using the Hubble space telescope found a black hole three billion times bigger than the sun in the galaxy named M87 located 50 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo.
According to Valtonen's team, which included astronomers from other countries, OJ287 contains another small black hole that allowed them to measure the larger one.
The smaller black hole weighs about 100 million Suns and orbits the larger one on an oval-shaped path every 12 years. By analyzing the orbit of the smaller hole and the outbursts of light that occur when it comes closer to the disc of matter surrounding the larger black hole, the astronomers determined the size of the latter. "
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7009679229
Planet Quest: SIM Technical Area
"The best candidate is probably OJ287, with an inferred period of 24 years from variability monitoring, and a mass of 10(x9) solar masses. During 5 years of SIM monitoring, the expected orbital displacement is about 15 mas."
http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/SIM/sim_extragalactic_astro.cfm
SPACE.com -- Even Thin Galaxies Pack Hefty Black Holes
"AUSTIN, Texas ― A half-dozen hefty black holes hide out where they are least expected, in relatively skinny galaxies. The discovery implies galaxies don't need bulging bellies to harbor monstrous black holes."
The study will be published in the April 10 issue of the Astrophysical Journal.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080110-aas-fat-black-holes.html
HubbleSite - NewsCenter - The Violent Lives of Galaxies: Caught in the Cosmic Dark Matter Web (01/10/2008) - Introduction
"An American Astronomical Society Meeting Release"
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2008/03/The Violent Lives of Galaxies: Caught in the Cosmic Dark Matter Web (01/10/2008) - HubbleSite - NewsCenter -
""Thanks to Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys, we are detecting for the first time the irregular clumps of dark matter in this supercluster," Heymans said. "We can even see an extension of the dark matter toward a very hot group of galaxies that are emitting X-rays as they fall into the densest cluster core."
The dark matter map was constructed by measuring the distorted shapes of over 60,000 faraway galaxies. To reach Earth, the galaxies' light traveled through the dark matter that surrounds the supercluster galaxies and was bent by the massive gravitational field. Heymans used the observed, subtle distortion of the galaxies' shapes to reconstruct the dark matter distribution in the supercluster using a method called weak gravitational lensing. The dark matter map is 2.5 times sharper than a previous ground-based survey of the supercluster."
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2008/03/full/
以下も
9日、テキサス州オースティンAustinで開かれた第211回米国天文学会American Astronomical Society会議から
高速で移動する「中質量ブラックホール」が星を飲み込む？米研究報告 AFPBB News
"「恒星質量ブラックホール」と「中質量ブラックホール」が合体したらどのようなことが起こるかをシミュレーションするに至った。高度なコンピューターを使ったシミュレーションにより、このような合体により数百の「中質量ブラックホール」が誕生し、最大秒速4000キロの速度で球状星団から飛び出すとの結果が得られた。"
http://www.afpbb.com/article/environment-science-it/science-technology/2334655/2511416
Guiana's 1st launch of Russian Soyuz rocket delayed_English_Xinhua
" BEIJING, Jan. 9 (Xinhuanet) -- The inaugural launch from Europe's Guiana Space Center of a Russian Soyuz rocket is likely to be delayed until mid-2009 following delays in production of a specially designed mobile gantry being built in Russia, according to government and industry officials.
Unlike almost every other aspect of the Soyuz launch installation, the mobile gantry is not a copy of the Soyuz launch installations long in use at Russia's Plesetsk and Baikonur cosmodromes.
For Europe's Soyuz operations, the satellite payload will be placed upright onto the vehicle rather than integrated horizontally as is the common Russian practice."
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-01/09/content_7393222.htm
ハッブルの補修、打上げは8月7日
"この補修により、ハッブル宇宙望遠鏡は、ジェイムズ・ウェッブ宇宙望遠鏡（JWST：James Webb Space Telescope）が打ち上げられる2013年まで、稼動することが可能となる。
船長は前回のハッブル補修ミッション（STS-109・HST-SM3B）でも船長を務めた、スコット・アルトマン（Scott Altman）
「NASAはベテランのハッブル宇宙飛行士を揃えてくれた。搭乗クルーとミッションチームは全力で訓練し、打ち上げとハッブルの補修作業を楽しみにしている」（John Grunsfeld）" sorae.jp
http://www.sorae.jp/030604/2188.html
Ariane 5’s Automated Transfer Vehicle payload is positioned for its fueling operations
The Space Fellowship
http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=4149
Britain: Brown government slashes science budget
"On December 11, the Science and Technology Facilities Council announced severe cuts to the budgets of critical physics research and astronomy projects in the UK.
The cuts are being imposed as the result of a £80 million shortfall in the annual STFC budget of £678 million. "
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jan2008/scie-j08.shtml
━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛
Connector removed from Atlantis
再々延期されるAtlantis to Launch
スケジュールは またまた未定に2007/12/28
【TBD】＝to be determined
While a launch on Jan. 10 is no longer achievable, no launch date has been discussed.
False readings from the sensors led to two launch scrubs in December.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html
FLIGHT DAY 1
• Launch
• Payload Bay Door Opening
• Ku‐Band Antenna Deployment
•Shuttle Robotic Arm Activation and Checkout
•Umbilical Well and Handheld External Tank Video and Stills Downlink
━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛
NASA jargon, temp-stow -- temporarily stow it
"so that the station arm can grab Columbus. Again, that’s the whole structural interface between the station’s robotic arm and 30,000 pounds, and
€1 billion worth, of ESA’s hardware
, so they have to make sure that’s on there really good.""We will go to the new nitrogen tank waiting in the payload bay, break torque on its bolts, unbolt it, and Rex will pick it up on the arm. We will fly him up to the P1 Truss where they will put it, what we call in NASA jargon,
temp-stow
-- temporarily stow it, stick it somewhere because we have to let go of it for a minute -- stick it onto the truss, go over to the old tank, finish unbolting it, pull it ou"NASA - Preflight Interview: Stan Love, Mission Specialist
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts122/interview_love.html
FLIGHT DAY 2
•Atlantis Thermal Protection System Survey with Orbiter Boom Sensor System (OBSS)
•Extravehicular Mobility Unit Checkout
•Centerline Camera Installation
•Orbiter Docking System Ring Extension
•Orbital Maneuvering System Pod Survey
•Rendezvous Tools Checkout
COLUMBUS CONTROL CENTER, OBERPFAFFENHOFEN, GERMANY
FLIGHT DAY 3
•Rendezvous with the International Space Station
•Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver Photography by the Expedition 16 Crew •Docking to Harmony (Node 2)/Pressurized Mating Adapter‐2 •Hatch Opening and Welcoming •OBSS Unberth by Canadarm2 •Extravehicular Activity (EVA) 1 Procedure Review
•EVA‐1 Campout by Walheim and Schlegel
FLIGHT DAY 4
•Soyuz Seat Liner Swap and Expedition Crew Exchange by Tani and Eyharts
•EVA‐1 by Walheim and Schlegel (Columbus Grapple Fixture Installation, P1 Truss Nitrogen Tank Assembly Preparation) •Temporary Shuttle Ku‐band Antenna Stowage for Columbus Module Unberth
•Columbus Module Grapple, Unberth and Installation on Starboard Side of Harmony
FLIGHT DAY 5
•Atlantis Thermal Protection System Focused Inspection with OBSS (if required)
•Shuttle Ku‐band Antenna Redeployment
•Columbus Module Ingress Preparations
•Columbus Module Ingress
•EVA‐2 Procedure Review •EVA‐2 Campout by Walheim and Schlegel
FLIGHT DAY 6
•EVA‐2 by Walheim and Schlegel (P1 Truss Nitrogen Tank Assembly Installation, Stowage of Old N2 Tank Assembly)
•Columbus Module Outfitting
FLIGHT DAY 7
• Columbus Module Racks and Systems Outfitting
• Off Duty Periods
• EVA‐3 Procedure Review •EVA‐3 Campout by Walheim and Love
FLIGHT DAY 8
•EVA‐3 by Walheim and Love (SOLAR and EuTEF Facility Installation, Failed Control Moment Gyroscope Transfer to Atlantis・Payload Bay)
FLIGHT DAY 9
•Shuttle and Station Transfers
•Joint Crew News Conference
•ISS Reboost
•Columbus Module Outfitting
•Farewells and Hatch Closure
FLIGHT DAY 10
•Undocking from Harmony Node 2/Pressurized Mating Adapter‐2 and Flyaround
•Final Separation from the International Space Station •OBSS Unberth and Late Inspection of Atlantis's Thermal Protection System
•OBSS Final Berthing
FLIGHT DAY 11
•Cabin Stow •Flight Control System Checkout
•Reaction Control System Hot‐Fire Test
•Crew Deorbit Briefing •Launch and Entry Suit Checkout •Recumbent Seat Set Up for Tani
•Ku‐Band Antenna Stow
FLIGHT DAY 12
•Deorbit Preparations
•Payload Bay Door Closing
•Deorbit Burn
•Kennedy Space Center Landing
防衛省昇格１年 不祥事続き「降格」論も 前次官は逮捕 北海道新聞
"内閣府の外局から独立した防衛省は、独自の法案提出が可能となった。また付随的任務だった自衛隊の海外活動は本来任務に格上げされ、責任は増した。
不祥事続出に業を煮やした首相官邸は、官邸主導で防衛省を立て直すため昨年十二月、防衛省改革会議を設置。九日は情報保全対策を協議したが、「事件が起こるたびに同じような対策がとられるが、浸透していない」"
http://www.hokkaido-np.co.jp/news/politics/69771.html
＜イラク＞男性死亡原因の半数近くが戦争・テロからむ（毎日新聞） -
世界保健機関（ＷＨＯ）調査は軍人を含むもの
"０３年３月のイラク戦争開戦から０６年６月までに戦争やテロなどによって死亡したイラク人は推計で１５万１０００人
１５〜５９歳の男性の死亡原因は４６％が武力紛争などの暴力行為
暴力による死者の５６％は、首都バグダッドに集中"
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20080110-00000035-mai-int
ドバイ市地下鉄三原からゴー 「乗り心地良く非常に満足」 読売
アラブ首長国連邦（ＵＡＥ）のドバイ市で進むアラビア半島初の地下鉄整備事業
無人運行の「ドバイメトロ」車両完成 広島 MSN産経
中東のＵＡＥ（アラブ首長国連邦）のドバイ市が発注した、無人運行の地下鉄「ドバイメトロ」の車両が完成
"山谷剛史のマンスリー・チャイナネット事件簿
年始特別編：2008年の中国インターネットを予測する "
http://internet.watch.impress.co.jp/static/column/m_china/2008/01/09/
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
Such stunning cosmic coincidences reveal so much about nature. Dark matter is not hidden to lensing,”
“The elegance of this lens is trumped only by the secrets of nature that it reveals.”
The massive foreground galaxy is almost perfectly aligned in the sky with two background galaxies at different distances.
The foreground galaxy is 3 billion light-years away.
The inner ring and outer ring are comprised of multiple images of two galaxies at a distance of 6 billion and approximately 11 billion light-years.
"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
Jet Power and Black Hole Assortment Revealed in New Chandra Image :: 09 Jan 08
Centurus A
A dramatic new Chandra image of the nearby galaxy Centaurus A provides one of the best views to date of the effects of an active supermassive black hole. Opposing jets of high-energy particles can be seen extending to the outer reaches of the galaxy, and numerous smaller black holes in binary star systems are also visible.A prominent X-ray jet extending for 13,000 light years
points to the upper left in the image, with a shorter "counterjet" aimed in the opposite direction."
http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/08_releases/press_010908.html
quasar known as OJ287
Astronomers Measure Largest Black Hole As 18 Billion Times Bigger Than Sun | January 11, 2008 | AHN
the largest black hole as 18 billion times bigger than the sun.
"quasar known as OJ287 on Wednesday at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Austin, Texas.
The quasar, 3.5 billion light-years from Earth in the constellation Cancer.
In 1994, astronomers using the Hubble space telescope found a black hole three billion times bigger than the sun in the galaxy named M87 located 50 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo.
According to Valtonen's team, which included astronomers from other countries, OJ287 contains another small black hole that allowed them to measure the larger one.
The smaller black hole weighs about 100 million Suns and orbits the larger one on an oval-shaped path every 12 years. By analyzing the orbit of the smaller hole and the outbursts of light that occur when it comes closer to the disc of matter surrounding the larger black hole, the astronomers determined the size of the latter. "
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7009679229
Planet Quest: SIM Technical Area
"The best candidate is probably OJ287, with an inferred period of 24 years from variability monitoring, and a mass of 10(x9) solar masses. During 5 years of SIM monitoring, the expected orbital displacement is about 15 mas."
http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/SIM/sim_extragalactic_astro.cfm
SPACE.com -- Even Thin Galaxies Pack Hefty Black Holes
"AUSTIN, Texas ― A half-dozen hefty black holes hide out where they are least expected, in relatively skinny galaxies. The discovery implies galaxies don't need bulging bellies to harbor monstrous black holes."
The study will be published in the April 10 issue of the Astrophysical Journal.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080110-aas-fat-black-holes.html
HubbleSite - NewsCenter - The Violent Lives of Galaxies: Caught in the Cosmic Dark Matter Web (01/10/2008) - Introduction
"An American Astronomical Society Meeting Release"
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2008/03/The Violent Lives of Galaxies: Caught in the Cosmic Dark Matter Web (01/10/2008) - HubbleSite - NewsCenter -
""Thanks to Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys, we are detecting for the first time the irregular clumps of dark matter in this supercluster," Heymans said. "We can even see an extension of the dark matter toward a very hot group of galaxies that are emitting X-rays as they fall into the densest cluster core."
The dark matter map was constructed by measuring the distorted shapes of over 60,000 faraway galaxies. To reach Earth, the galaxies' light traveled through the dark matter that surrounds the supercluster galaxies and was bent by the massive gravitational field. Heymans used the observed, subtle distortion of the galaxies' shapes to reconstruct the dark matter distribution in the supercluster using a method called weak gravitational lensing. The dark matter map is 2.5 times sharper than a previous ground-based survey of the supercluster."
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2008/03/full/
以下も
9日、テキサス州オースティンAustinで開かれた第211回米国天文学会American Astronomical Society会議から
高速で移動する「中質量ブラックホール」が星を飲み込む？米研究報告 AFPBB News
"「恒星質量ブラックホール」と「中質量ブラックホール」が合体したらどのようなことが起こるかをシミュレーションするに至った。高度なコンピューターを使ったシミュレーションにより、このような合体により数百の「中質量ブラックホール」が誕生し、最大秒速4000キロの速度で球状星団から飛び出すとの結果が得られた。"
http://www.afpbb.com/article/environment-science-it/science-technology/2334655/2511416
Guiana's 1st launch of Russian Soyuz rocket delayed_English_Xinhua
" BEIJING, Jan. 9 (Xinhuanet) -- The inaugural launch from Europe's Guiana Space Center of a Russian Soyuz rocket is likely to be delayed until mid-2009 following delays in production of a specially designed mobile gantry being built in Russia, according to government and industry officials.
Unlike almost every other aspect of the Soyuz launch installation, the mobile gantry is not a copy of the Soyuz launch installations long in use at Russia's Plesetsk and Baikonur cosmodromes.
For Europe's Soyuz operations, the satellite payload will be placed upright onto the vehicle rather than integrated horizontally as is the common Russian practice."
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-01/09/content_7393222.htm
ハッブルの補修、打上げは8月7日
"この補修により、ハッブル宇宙望遠鏡は、ジェイムズ・ウェッブ宇宙望遠鏡（JWST：James Webb Space Telescope）が打ち上げられる2013年まで、稼動することが可能となる。
船長は前回のハッブル補修ミッション（STS-109・HST-SM3B）でも船長を務めた、スコット・アルトマン（Scott Altman）
「NASAはベテランのハッブル宇宙飛行士を揃えてくれた。搭乗クルーとミッションチームは全力で訓練し、打ち上げとハッブルの補修作業を楽しみにしている」（John Grunsfeld）" sorae.jp
http://www.sorae.jp/030604/2188.html
Ariane 5’s Automated Transfer Vehicle payload is positioned for its fueling operations
The Space Fellowship
http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=4149
Britain: Brown government slashes science budget
"On December 11, the Science and Technology Facilities Council announced severe cuts to the budgets of critical physics research and astronomy projects in the UK.
The cuts are being imposed as the result of a £80 million shortfall in the annual STFC budget of £678 million. "
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jan2008/scie-j08.shtml
━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛
Connector removed from Atlantis
再々延期されるAtlantis to Launch
スケジュールは またまた未定に2007/12/28
【TBD】＝to be determined
While a launch on Jan. 10 is no longer achievable, no launch date has been discussed.
False readings from the sensors led to two launch scrubs in December.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html
FLIGHT DAY 1
• Launch
• Payload Bay Door Opening
• Ku‐Band Antenna Deployment
•Shuttle Robotic Arm Activation and Checkout
•Umbilical Well and Handheld External Tank Video and Stills Downlink
━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛
NASA jargon, temp-stow -- temporarily stow it
"so that the station arm can grab Columbus. Again, that’s the whole structural interface between the station’s robotic arm and 30,000 pounds, and
€1 billion worth, of ESA’s hardware
, so they have to make sure that’s on there really good.""We will go to the new nitrogen tank waiting in the payload bay, break torque on its bolts, unbolt it, and Rex will pick it up on the arm. We will fly him up to the P1 Truss where they will put it, what we call in NASA jargon,
temp-stow
-- temporarily stow it, stick it somewhere because we have to let go of it for a minute -- stick it onto the truss, go over to the old tank, finish unbolting it, pull it ou"NASA - Preflight Interview: Stan Love, Mission Specialist
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts122/interview_love.html
FLIGHT DAY 2
•Atlantis Thermal Protection System Survey with Orbiter Boom Sensor System (OBSS)
•Extravehicular Mobility Unit Checkout
•Centerline Camera Installation
•Orbiter Docking System Ring Extension
•Orbital Maneuvering System Pod Survey
•Rendezvous Tools Checkout
COLUMBUS CONTROL CENTER, OBERPFAFFENHOFEN, GERMANY
FLIGHT DAY 3
•Rendezvous with the International Space Station
•Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver Photography by the Expedition 16 Crew •Docking to Harmony (Node 2)/Pressurized Mating Adapter‐2 •Hatch Opening and Welcoming •OBSS Unberth by Canadarm2 •Extravehicular Activity (EVA) 1 Procedure Review
•EVA‐1 Campout by Walheim and Schlegel
FLIGHT DAY 4
•Soyuz Seat Liner Swap and Expedition Crew Exchange by Tani and Eyharts
•EVA‐1 by Walheim and Schlegel (Columbus Grapple Fixture Installation, P1 Truss Nitrogen Tank Assembly Preparation) •Temporary Shuttle Ku‐band Antenna Stowage for Columbus Module Unberth
•Columbus Module Grapple, Unberth and Installation on Starboard Side of Harmony
FLIGHT DAY 5
•Atlantis Thermal Protection System Focused Inspection with OBSS (if required)
•Shuttle Ku‐band Antenna Redeployment
•Columbus Module Ingress Preparations
•Columbus Module Ingress
•EVA‐2 Procedure Review •EVA‐2 Campout by Walheim and Schlegel
FLIGHT DAY 6
•EVA‐2 by Walheim and Schlegel (P1 Truss Nitrogen Tank Assembly Installation, Stowage of Old N2 Tank Assembly)
•Columbus Module Outfitting
FLIGHT DAY 7
• Columbus Module Racks and Systems Outfitting
• Off Duty Periods
• EVA‐3 Procedure Review •EVA‐3 Campout by Walheim and Love
FLIGHT DAY 8
•EVA‐3 by Walheim and Love (SOLAR and EuTEF Facility Installation, Failed Control Moment Gyroscope Transfer to Atlantis・Payload Bay)
FLIGHT DAY 9
•Shuttle and Station Transfers
•Joint Crew News Conference
•ISS Reboost
•Columbus Module Outfitting
•Farewells and Hatch Closure
FLIGHT DAY 10
•Undocking from Harmony Node 2/Pressurized Mating Adapter‐2 and Flyaround
•Final Separation from the International Space Station •OBSS Unberth and Late Inspection of Atlantis's Thermal Protection System
•OBSS Final Berthing
FLIGHT DAY 11
•Cabin Stow •Flight Control System Checkout
•Reaction Control System Hot‐Fire Test
•Crew Deorbit Briefing •Launch and Entry Suit Checkout •Recumbent Seat Set Up for Tani
•Ku‐Band Antenna Stow
FLIGHT DAY 12
•Deorbit Preparations
•Payload Bay Door Closing
•Deorbit Burn
•Kennedy Space Center Landing
防衛省昇格１年 不祥事続き「降格」論も 前次官は逮捕 北海道新聞
"内閣府の外局から独立した防衛省は、独自の法案提出が可能となった。また付随的任務だった自衛隊の海外活動は本来任務に格上げされ、責任は増した。
不祥事続出に業を煮やした首相官邸は、官邸主導で防衛省を立て直すため昨年十二月、防衛省改革会議を設置。九日は情報保全対策を協議したが、「事件が起こるたびに同じような対策がとられるが、浸透していない」"
http://www.hokkaido-np.co.jp/news/politics/69771.html
＜イラク＞男性死亡原因の半数近くが戦争・テロからむ（毎日新聞） -
世界保健機関（ＷＨＯ）調査は軍人を含むもの
"０３年３月のイラク戦争開戦から０６年６月までに戦争やテロなどによって死亡したイラク人は推計で１５万１０００人
１５〜５９歳の男性の死亡原因は４６％が武力紛争などの暴力行為
暴力による死者の５６％は、首都バグダッドに集中"
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20080110-00000035-mai-int
ドバイ市地下鉄三原からゴー 「乗り心地良く非常に満足」 読売
アラブ首長国連邦（ＵＡＥ）のドバイ市で進むアラビア半島初の地下鉄整備事業
無人運行の「ドバイメトロ」車両完成 広島 MSN産経
中東のＵＡＥ（アラブ首長国連邦）のドバイ市が発注した、無人運行の地下鉄「ドバイメトロ」の車両が完成
"山谷剛史のマンスリー・チャイナネット事件簿
年始特別編：2008年の中国インターネットを予測する "
http://internet.watch.impress.co.jp/static/column/m_china/2008/01/09/
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
Such stunning cosmic coincidences reveal so much about nature. Dark matter is not hidden to lensing,”
“The elegance of this lens is trumped only by the secrets of nature that it reveals.”
The massive foreground galaxy is almost perfectly aligned in the sky with two background galaxies at different distances.
The foreground galaxy is 3 billion light-years away.
The inner ring and outer ring are comprised of multiple images of two galaxies at a distance of 6 billion and approximately 11 billion light-years.
"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
Jet Power and Black Hole Assortment Revealed in New Chandra Image :: 09 Jan 08
Centurus A
A dramatic new Chandra image of the nearby galaxy Centaurus A provides one of the best views to date of the effects of an active supermassive black hole. Opposing jets of high-energy particles can be seen extending to the outer reaches of the galaxy, and numerous smaller black holes in binary star systems are also visible.A prominent X-ray jet extending for 13,000 light years
points to the upper left in the image, with a shorter "counterjet" aimed in the opposite direction."
http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/08_releases/press_010908.html
quasar known as OJ287
Astronomers Measure Largest Black Hole As 18 Billion Times Bigger Than Sun | January 11, 2008 | AHN
the largest black hole as 18 billion times bigger than the sun.
"quasar known as OJ287 on Wednesday at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Austin, Texas.
The quasar, 3.5 billion light-years from Earth in the constellation Cancer.
In 1994, astronomers using the Hubble space telescope found a black hole three billion times bigger than the sun in the galaxy named M87 located 50 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo.
According to Valtonen's team, which included astronomers from other countries, OJ287 contains another small black hole that allowed them to measure the larger one.
The smaller black hole weighs about 100 million Suns and orbits the larger one on an oval-shaped path every 12 years. By analyzing the orbit of the smaller hole and the outbursts of light that occur when it comes closer to the disc of matter surrounding the larger black hole, the astronomers determined the size of the latter. "
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7009679229
Planet Quest: SIM Technical Area
"The best candidate is probably OJ287, with an inferred period of 24 years from variability monitoring, and a mass of 10(x9) solar masses. During 5 years of SIM monitoring, the expected orbital displacement is about 15 mas."
http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/SIM/sim_extragalactic_astro.cfm
SPACE.com -- Even Thin Galaxies Pack Hefty Black Holes
"AUSTIN, Texas ― A half-dozen hefty black holes hide out where they are least expected, in relatively skinny galaxies. The discovery implies galaxies don't need bulging bellies to harbor monstrous black holes."
The study will be published in the April 10 issue of the Astrophysical Journal.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080110-aas-fat-black-holes.html
HubbleSite - NewsCenter - The Violent Lives of Galaxies: Caught in the Cosmic Dark Matter Web (01/10/2008) - Introduction
"An American Astronomical Society Meeting Release"
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2008/03/The Violent Lives of Galaxies: Caught in the Cosmic Dark Matter Web (01/10/2008) - HubbleSite - NewsCenter -
""Thanks to Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys, we are detecting for the first time the irregular clumps of dark matter in this supercluster," Heymans said. "We can even see an extension of the dark matter toward a very hot group of galaxies that are emitting X-rays as they fall into the densest cluster core."
The dark matter map was constructed by measuring the distorted shapes of over 60,000 faraway galaxies. To reach Earth, the galaxies' light traveled through the dark matter that surrounds the supercluster galaxies and was bent by the massive gravitational field. Heymans used the observed, subtle distortion of the galaxies' shapes to reconstruct the dark matter distribution in the supercluster using a method called weak gravitational lensing. The dark matter map is 2.5 times sharper than a previous ground-based survey of the supercluster."
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2008/03/full/
以下も
9日、テキサス州オースティンAustinで開かれた第211回米国天文学会American Astronomical Society会議から
高速で移動する「中質量ブラックホール」が星を飲み込む？米研究報告 AFPBB News
"「恒星質量ブラックホール」と「中質量ブラックホール」が合体したらどのようなことが起こるかをシミュレーションするに至った。高度なコンピューターを使ったシミュレーションにより、このような合体により数百の「中質量ブラックホール」が誕生し、最大秒速4000キロの速度で球状星団から飛び出すとの結果が得られた。"
http://www.afpbb.com/article/environment-science-it/science-technology/2334655/2511416
Guiana's 1st launch of Russian Soyuz rocket delayed_English_Xinhua
" BEIJING, Jan. 9 (Xinhuanet) -- The inaugural launch from Europe's Guiana Space Center of a Russian Soyuz rocket is likely to be delayed until mid-2009 following delays in production of a specially designed mobile gantry being built in Russia, according to government and industry officials.
Unlike almost every other aspect of the Soyuz launch installation, the mobile gantry is not a copy of the Soyuz launch installations long in use at Russia's Plesetsk and Baikonur cosmodromes.
For Europe's Soyuz operations, the satellite payload will be placed upright onto the vehicle rather than integrated horizontally as is the common Russian practice."
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-01/09/content_7393222.htm
ハッブルの補修、打上げは8月7日
"この補修により、ハッブル宇宙望遠鏡は、ジェイムズ・ウェッブ宇宙望遠鏡（JWST：James Webb Space Telescope）が打ち上げられる2013年まで、稼動することが可能となる。
船長は前回のハッブル補修ミッション（STS-109・HST-SM3B）でも船長を務めた、スコット・アルトマン（Scott Altman）
「NASAはベテランのハッブル宇宙飛行士を揃えてくれた。搭乗クルーとミッションチームは全力で訓練し、打ち上げとハッブルの補修作業を楽しみにしている」（John Grunsfeld）" sorae.jp
http://www.sorae.jp/030604/2188.html
Ariane 5’s Automated Transfer Vehicle payload is positioned for its fueling operations
The Space Fellowship
http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=4149
Britain: Brown government slashes science budget
"On December 11, the Science and Technology Facilities Council announced severe cuts to the budgets of critical physics research and astronomy projects in the UK.
The cuts are being imposed as the result of a £80 million shortfall in the annual STFC budget of £678 million. "
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jan2008/scie-j08.shtml
━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛
Connector removed from Atlantis
再々延期されるAtlantis to Launch
スケジュールは またまた未定に2007/12/28
【TBD】＝to be determined
While a launch on Jan. 10 is no longer achievable, no launch date has been discussed.
False readings from the sensors led to two launch scrubs in December.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html
FLIGHT DAY 1
• Launch
• Payload Bay Door Opening
• Ku‐Band Antenna Deployment
•Shuttle Robotic Arm Activation and Checkout
•Umbilical Well and Handheld External Tank Video and Stills Downlink
━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛
NASA jargon, temp-stow -- temporarily stow it
"so that the station arm can grab Columbus. Again, that’s the whole structural interface between the station’s robotic arm and 30,000 pounds, and
€1 billion worth, of ESA’s hardware
, so they have to make sure that’s on there really good.""We will go to the new nitrogen tank waiting in the payload bay, break torque on its bolts, unbolt it, and Rex will pick it up on the arm. We will fly him up to the P1 Truss where they will put it, what we call in NASA jargon,
temp-stow
-- temporarily stow it, stick it somewhere because we have to let go of it for a minute -- stick it onto the truss, go over to the old tank, finish unbolting it, pull it ou"NASA - Preflight Interview: Stan Love, Mission Specialist
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts122/interview_love.html
FLIGHT DAY 2
•Atlantis Thermal Protection System Survey with Orbiter Boom Sensor System (OBSS)
•Extravehicular Mobility Unit Checkout
•Centerline Camera Installation
•Orbiter Docking System Ring Extension
•Orbital Maneuvering System Pod Survey
•Rendezvous Tools Checkout
COLUMBUS CONTROL CENTER, OBERPFAFFENHOFEN, GERMANY
FLIGHT DAY 3
•Rendezvous with the International Space Station
•Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver Photography by the Expedition 16 Crew •Docking to Harmony (Node 2)/Pressurized Mating Adapter‐2 •Hatch Opening and Welcoming •OBSS Unberth by Canadarm2 •Extravehicular Activity (EVA) 1 Procedure Review
•EVA‐1 Campout by Walheim and Schlegel
FLIGHT DAY 4
•Soyuz Seat Liner Swap and Expedition Crew Exchange by Tani and Eyharts
•EVA‐1 by Walheim and Schlegel (Columbus Grapple Fixture Installation, P1 Truss Nitrogen Tank Assembly Preparation) •Temporary Shuttle Ku‐band Antenna Stowage for Columbus Module Unberth
•Columbus Module Grapple, Unberth and Installation on Starboard Side of Harmony
FLIGHT DAY 5
•Atlantis Thermal Protection System Focused Inspection with OBSS (if required)
•Shuttle Ku‐band Antenna Redeployment
•Columbus Module Ingress Preparations
•Columbus Module Ingress
•EVA‐2 Procedure Review •EVA‐2 Campout by Walheim and Schlegel
FLIGHT DAY 6
•EVA‐2 by Walheim and Schlegel (P1 Truss Nitrogen Tank Assembly Installation, Stowage of Old N2 Tank Assembly)
•Columbus Module Outfitting
FLIGHT DAY 7
• Columbus Module Racks and Systems Outfitting
• Off Duty Periods
• EVA‐3 Procedure Review •EVA‐3 Campout by Walheim and Love
FLIGHT DAY 8
•EVA‐3 by Walheim and Love (SOLAR and EuTEF Facility Installation, Failed Control Moment Gyroscope Transfer to Atlantis・Payload Bay)
FLIGHT DAY 9
•Shuttle and Station Transfers
•Joint Crew News Conference
•ISS Reboost
•Columbus Module Outfitting
•Farewells and Hatch Closure
FLIGHT DAY 10
•Undocking from Harmony Node 2/Pressurized Mating Adapter‐2 and Flyaround
•Final Separation from the International Space Station •OBSS Unberth and Late Inspection of Atlantis's Thermal Protection System
•OBSS Final Berthing
FLIGHT DAY 11
•Cabin Stow •Flight Control System Checkout
•Reaction Control System Hot‐Fire Test
•Crew Deorbit Briefing •Launch and Entry Suit Checkout •Recumbent Seat Set Up for Tani
•Ku‐Band Antenna Stow
FLIGHT DAY 12
•Deorbit Preparations
•Payload Bay Door Closing
•Deorbit Burn
•Kennedy Space Center Landing
防衛省昇格１年 不祥事続き「降格」論も 前次官は逮捕 北海道新聞
"内閣府の外局から独立した防衛省は、独自の法案提出が可能となった。また付随的任務だった自衛隊の海外活動は本来任務に格上げされ、責任は増した。
不祥事続出に業を煮やした首相官邸は、官邸主導で防衛省を立て直すため昨年十二月、防衛省改革会議を設置。九日は情報保全対策を協議したが、「事件が起こるたびに同じような対策がとられるが、浸透していない」"
http://www.hokkaido-np.co.jp/news/politics/69771.html
＜イラク＞男性死亡原因の半数近くが戦争・テロからむ（毎日新聞） -
世界保健機関（ＷＨＯ）調査は軍人を含むもの
"０３年３月のイラク戦争開戦から０６年６月までに戦争やテロなどによって死亡したイラク人は推計で１５万１０００人
１５〜５９歳の男性の死亡原因は４６％が武力紛争などの暴力行為
暴力による死者の５６％は、首都バグダッドに集中"
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20080110-00000035-mai-int
ドバイ市地下鉄三原からゴー 「乗り心地良く非常に満足」 読売
アラブ首長国連邦（ＵＡＥ）のドバイ市で進むアラビア半島初の地下鉄整備事業
無人運行の「ドバイメトロ」車両完成 広島 MSN産経
中東のＵＡＥ（アラブ首長国連邦）のドバイ市が発注した、無人運行の地下鉄「ドバイメトロ」の車両が完成
"山谷剛史のマンスリー・チャイナネット事件簿
年始特別編：2008年の中国インターネットを予測する "
http://internet.watch.impress.co.jp/static/column/m_china/2008/01/09/
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
Such stunning cosmic coincidences reveal so much about nature. Dark matter is not hidden to lensing,”
“The elegance of this lens is trumped only by the secrets of nature that it reveals.”
The massive foreground galaxy is almost perfectly aligned in the sky with two background galaxies at different distances.
The foreground galaxy is 3 billion light-years away.
The inner ring and outer ring are comprised of multiple images of two galaxies at a distance of 6 billion and approximately 11 billion light-years.
"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
Jet Power and Black Hole Assortment Revealed in New Chandra Image :: 09 Jan 08
Centurus A
A dramatic new Chandra image of the nearby galaxy Centaurus A provides one of the best views to date of the effects of an active supermassive black hole. Opposing jets of high-energy particles can be seen extending to the outer reaches of the galaxy, and numerous smaller black holes in binary star systems are also visible.A prominent X-ray jet extending for 13,000 light years
points to the upper left in the image, with a shorter "counterjet" aimed in the opposite direction."
http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/08_releases/press_010908.html
quasar known as OJ287
Astronomers Measure Largest Black Hole As 18 Billion Times Bigger Than Sun | January 11, 2008 | AHN
the largest black hole as 18 billion times bigger than the sun.
"quasar known as OJ287 on Wednesday at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Austin, Texas.
The quasar, 3.5 billion light-years from Earth in the constellation Cancer.
In 1994, astronomers using the Hubble space telescope found a black hole three billion times bigger than the sun in the galaxy named M87 located 50 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo.
According to Valtonen's team, which included astronomers from other countries, OJ287 contains another small black hole that allowed them to measure the larger one.
The smaller black hole weighs about 100 million Suns and orbits the larger one on an oval-shaped path every 12 years. By analyzing the orbit of the smaller hole and the outbursts of light that occur when it comes closer to the disc of matter surrounding the larger black hole, the astronomers determined the size of the latter. "
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7009679229
Planet Quest: SIM Technical Area
"The best candidate is probably OJ287, with an inferred period of 24 years from variability monitoring, and a mass of 10(x9) solar masses. During 5 years of SIM monitoring, the expected orbital displacement is about 15 mas."
http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/SIM/sim_extragalactic_astro.cfm
SPACE.com -- Even Thin Galaxies Pack Hefty Black Holes
"AUSTIN, Texas ― A half-dozen hefty black holes hide out where they are least expected, in relatively skinny galaxies. The discovery implies galaxies don't need bulging bellies to harbor monstrous black holes."
The study will be published in the April 10 issue of the Astrophysical Journal.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080110-aas-fat-black-holes.html
HubbleSite - NewsCenter - The Violent Lives of Galaxies: Caught in the Cosmic Dark Matter Web (01/10/2008) - Introduction
"An American Astronomical Society Meeting Release"
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2008/03/The Violent Lives of Galaxies: Caught in the Cosmic Dark Matter Web (01/10/2008) - HubbleSite - NewsCenter -
""Thanks to Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys, we are detecting for the first time the irregular clumps of dark matter in this supercluster," Heymans said. "We can even see an extension of the dark matter toward a very hot group of galaxies that are emitting X-rays as they fall into the densest cluster core."
The dark matter map was constructed by measuring the distorted shapes of over 60,000 faraway galaxies. To reach Earth, the galaxies' light traveled through the dark matter that surrounds the supercluster galaxies and was bent by the massive gravitational field. Heymans used the observed, subtle distortion of the galaxies' shapes to reconstruct the dark matter distribution in the supercluster using a method called weak gravitational lensing. The dark matter map is 2.5 times sharper than a previous ground-based survey of the supercluster."
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2008/03/full/
以下も
9日、テキサス州オースティンAustinで開かれた第211回米国天文学会American Astronomical Society会議から
高速で移動する「中質量ブラックホール」が星を飲み込む？米研究報告 AFPBB News
"「恒星質量ブラックホール」と「中質量ブラックホール」が合体したらどのようなことが起こるかをシミュレーションするに至った。高度なコンピューターを使ったシミュレーションにより、このような合体により数百の「中質量ブラックホール」が誕生し、最大秒速4000キロの速度で球状星団から飛び出すとの結果が得られた。"
http://www.afpbb.com/article/environment-science-it/science-technology/2334655/2511416
Guiana's 1st launch of Russian Soyuz rocket delayed_English_Xinhua
" BEIJING, Jan. 9 (Xinhuanet) -- The inaugural launch from Europe's Guiana Space Center of a Russian Soyuz rocket is likely to be delayed until mid-2009 following delays in production of a specially designed mobile gantry being built in Russia, according to government and industry officials.
Unlike almost every other aspect of the Soyuz launch installation, the mobile gantry is not a copy of the Soyuz launch installations long in use at Russia's Plesetsk and Baikonur cosmodromes.
For Europe's Soyuz operations, the satellite payload will be placed upright onto the vehicle rather than integrated horizontally as is the common Russian practice."
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-01/09/content_7393222.htm
ハッブルの補修、打上げは8月7日
"この補修により、ハッブル宇宙望遠鏡は、ジェイムズ・ウェッブ宇宙望遠鏡（JWST：James Webb Space Telescope）が打ち上げられる2013年まで、稼動することが可能となる。
船長は前回のハッブル補修ミッション（STS-109・HST-SM3B）でも船長を務めた、スコット・アルトマン（Scott Altman）
「NASAはベテランのハッブル宇宙飛行士を揃えてくれた。搭乗クルーとミッションチームは全力で訓練し、打ち上げとハッブルの補修作業を楽しみにしている」（John Grunsfeld）" sorae.jp
http://www.sorae.jp/030604/2188.html
Ariane 5’s Automated Transfer Vehicle payload is positioned for its fueling operations
The Space Fellowship
http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=4149
Britain: Brown government slashes science budget
"On December 11, the Science and Technology Facilities Council announced severe cuts to the budgets of critical physics research and astronomy projects in the UK.
The cuts are being imposed as the result of a £80 million shortfall in the annual STFC budget of £678 million. "
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jan2008/scie-j08.shtml
━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛
Connector removed from Atlantis
再々延期されるAtlantis to Launch
スケジュールは またまた未定に2007/12/28
【TBD】＝to be determined
While a launch on Jan. 10 is no longer achievable, no launch date has been discussed.
False readings from the sensors led to two launch scrubs in December.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html
FLIGHT DAY 1
• Launch
• Payload Bay Door Opening
• Ku‐Band Antenna Deployment
•Shuttle Robotic Arm Activation and Checkout
•Umbilical Well and Handheld External Tank Video and Stills Downlink
━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛━┛
NASA jargon, temp-stow -- temporarily stow it
"so that the station arm can grab Columbus. Again, that’s the whole structural interface between the station’s robotic arm and 30,000 pounds, and
€1 billion worth, of ESA’s hardware
, so they have to make sure that’s on there really good.""We will go to the new nitrogen tank waiting in the payload bay, break torque on its bolts, unbolt it, and Rex will pick it up on the arm. We will fly him up to the P1 Truss where they will put it, what we call in NASA jargon,
temp-stow
-- temporarily stow it, stick it somewhere because we have to let go of it for a minute -- stick it onto the truss, go over to the old tank, finish unbolting it, pull it ou"NASA - Preflight Interview: Stan Love, Mission Specialist
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts122/interview_love.html
FLIGHT DAY 2
•Atlantis Thermal Protection System Survey with Orbiter Boom Sensor System (OBSS)
•Extravehicular Mobility Unit Checkout
•Centerline Camera Installation
•Orbiter Docking System Ring Extension
•Orbital Maneuvering System Pod Survey
•Rendezvous Tools Checkout
COLUMBUS CONTROL CENTER, OBERPFAFFENHOFEN, GERMANY
FLIGHT DAY 3
•Rendezvous with the International Space Station
•Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver Photography by the Expedition 16 Crew •Docking to Harmony (Node 2)/Pressurized Mating Adapter‐2 •Hatch Opening and Welcoming •OBSS Unberth by Canadarm2 •Extravehicular Activity (EVA) 1 Procedure Review
•EVA‐1 Campout by Walheim and Schlegel
FLIGHT DAY 4
•Soyuz Seat Liner Swap and Expedition Crew Exchange by Tani and Eyharts
•EVA‐1 by Walheim and Schlegel (Columbus Grapple Fixture Installation, P1 Truss Nitrogen Tank Assembly Preparation) •Temporary Shuttle Ku‐band Antenna Stowage for Columbus Module Unberth
•Columbus Module Grapple, Unberth and Installation on Starboard Side of Harmony
FLIGHT DAY 5
•Atlantis Thermal Protection System Focused Inspection with OBSS (if required)
•Shuttle Ku‐band Antenna Redeployment
•Columbus Module Ingress Preparations
•Columbus Module Ingress
•EVA‐2 Procedure Review •EVA‐2 Campout by Walheim and Schlegel
FLIGHT DAY 6
•EVA‐2 by Walheim and Schlegel (P1 Truss Nitrogen Tank Assembly Installation, Stowage of Old N2 Tank Assembly)
•Columbus Module Outfitting
FLIGHT DAY 7
• Columbus Module Racks and Systems Outfitting
• Off Duty Periods
• EVA‐3 Procedure Review •EVA‐3 Campout by Walheim and Love
FLIGHT DAY 8
•EVA‐3 by Walheim and Love (SOLAR and EuTEF Facility Installation, Failed Control Moment Gyroscope Transfer to Atlantis・Payload Bay)
FLIGHT DAY 9
•Shuttle and Station Transfers
•Joint Crew News Conference
•ISS Reboost
•Columbus Module Outfitting
•Farewells and Hatch Closure
FLIGHT DAY 10
•Undocking from Harmony Node 2/Pressurized Mating Adapter‐2 and Flyaround
•Final Separation from the International Space Station •OBSS Unberth and Late Inspection of Atlantis's Thermal Protection System
•OBSS Final Berthing
FLIGHT DAY 11
•Cabin Stow •Flight Control System Checkout
•Reaction Control System Hot‐Fire Test
•Crew Deorbit Briefing •Launch and Entry Suit Checkout •Recumbent Seat Set Up for Tani
•Ku‐Band Antenna Stow
FLIGHT DAY 12
•Deorbit Preparations
•Payload Bay Door Closing
•Deorbit Burn
•Kennedy Space Center Landing
防衛省昇格１年 不祥事続き「降格」論も 前次官は逮捕 北海道新聞
"内閣府の外局から独立した防衛省は、独自の法案提出が可能となった。また付随的任務だった自衛隊の海外活動は本来任務に格上げされ、責任は増した。
不祥事続出に業を煮やした首相官邸は、官邸主導で防衛省を立て直すため昨年十二月、防衛省改革会議を設置。九日は情報保全対策を協議したが、「事件が起こるたびに同じような対策がとられるが、浸透していない」"
http://www.hokkaido-np.co.jp/news/politics/69771.html
＜イラク＞男性死亡原因の半数近くが戦争・テロからむ（毎日新聞） -
世界保健機関（ＷＨＯ）調査は軍人を含むもの
"０３年３月のイラク戦争開戦から０６年６月までに戦争やテロなどによって死亡したイラク人は推計で１５万１０００人
１５〜５９歳の男性の死亡原因は４６％が武力紛争などの暴力行為
暴力による死者の５６％は、首都バグダッドに集中"
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20080110-00000035-mai-int
ドバイ市地下鉄三原からゴー 「乗り心地良く非常に満足」 読売
アラブ首長国連邦（ＵＡＥ）のドバイ市で進むアラビア半島初の地下鉄整備事業
無人運行の「ドバイメトロ」車両完成 広島 MSN産経
中東のＵＡＥ（アラブ首長国連邦）のドバイ市が発注した、無人運行の地下鉄「ドバイメトロ」の車両が完成
"山谷剛史のマンスリー・チャイナネット事件簿
年始特別編：2008年の中国インターネットを予測する "
http://internet.watch.impress.co.jp/static/column/m_china/2008/01/09/
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
Such stunning cosmic coincidences reveal so much about nature. Dark matter is not hidden to lensing,”
“The elegance of this lens is trumped only by the secrets of nature that it reveals.”
The massive foreground galaxy is almost perfectly aligned in the sky with two background galaxies at different distances.
The foreground galaxy is 3 billion light-years away.
The inner ring and outer ring are comprised of multiple images of two galaxies at a distance of 6 billion and approximately 11 billion light-years.
"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
Jet Power and Black Hole Assortment Revealed in New Chandra Image :: 09 Jan 08
Centurus A
A dramatic new Chandra image of the nearby galaxy Centaurus A provides one of the best views to date of the effects of an active supermassive black hole. Opposing jets of high-energy particles can be seen extending to the outer reaches of the galaxy, and numerous smaller black holes in binary star systems are also visible.A prominent X-ray jet extending for 13,000 light years
points to the upper left in the image, with a shorter "counterjet" aimed in the opposite direction."
http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/08_releases/press_010908.html
quasar known as OJ287
Astronomers Measure Largest Black Hole As 18 Billion Times Bigger Than Sun | January 11, 2008 | AHN
the largest black hole as 18 billion times bigger than the sun.
"quasar known as OJ287 on Wednesday at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Austin, Texas.
The quasar, 3.5 billion light-years from Earth in the constellation Cancer.
In 1994, astronomers using the Hubble space telescope found a black hole three billion times bigger than the sun in the galaxy named M87 located 50 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo.
According to Valtonen's team, which included astronomers from other countries, OJ287 contains another small black hole that allowed them to measure the larger one.
The smaller black hole weighs about 100 million Suns and orbits the larger one on an oval-shaped path every 12 years. By analyzing the orbit of the smaller hole and the outbursts of light that occur when it comes closer to the disc of matter surrounding the larger black hole, the astronomers determined the size of the latter. "
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7009679229
Planet Quest: SIM Technical Area
"The best candidate is probably OJ287, with an inferred period of 24 years from variability monitoring, and a mass of 10(x9) solar masses. During 5 years of SIM monitoring, the expected orbital displacement is about 15 mas."
http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/SIM/sim_extragalactic_astro.cfm
SPACE.com -- Even Thin Galaxies Pack Hefty Black Holes
"AUSTIN, Texas ― A half-dozen hefty black holes hide out where they are least expected, in relatively skinny galaxies. The discovery implies galaxies don't need bulging bellies to harbor monstrous black holes."
The study will be published in the April 10 issue of the Astrophysical Journal.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080110-aas-fat-black-holes.html
HubbleSite - NewsCenter - The Violent Lives of Galaxies: Caught in the Cosmic Dark Matter Web (01/10/2008) - Introduction
"An American Astronomical Society Meeting Release"
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2008/03/The Violent Lives of Galaxies: Caught in the Cosmic Dark Matter Web (01/10/2008) - HubbleSite - NewsCenter -
""Thanks to Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys, we are detecting for the first time the irregular clumps of dark matter in this supercluster," Heymans said. "We can even see an extension of the dark matter toward a very hot group of galaxies that are emitting X-rays as they fall into the densest cluster core."
The dark matter map was constructed by measuring the distorted shapes of over 60,000 faraway galaxies. To reach Earth, the galaxies' light traveled through the dark matter that surrounds the supercluster galaxies and was bent by the massive gravitational field. Heymans used the observed, subtle distortion of the galaxies' shapes to reconstruct the dark matter distribution in the supercluster using a method called weak gravitational lensing. The dark matter map is 2.5 times sharper than a previous ground-based survey of the supercluster."
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2008/03/full/
以下も
9日、テキサス州オースティンAustinで開かれた第211回米国天文学会American Astronomical Society会議から
高速で移動する「中質量ブラックホール」が星を飲み込む？米研究報告 AFPBB News
"「恒星質量ブラックホール」と「中質量ブラックホール」が合体したらどのようなことが起こるかをシミュレーションするに至った。高度なコンピューターを使ったシミュレーションにより、このような合体により数百の「中質量ブラックホール」が誕生し、最大秒速4000キロの速度で球状星団から飛び出すとの結果が得られた。"
http://www.afpbb.com/article/environment-science-it/science-technology/2334655/2511416
Guiana's 1st launch of Russian Soyuz rocket delayed_English_Xinhua
" BEIJING, Jan. 9 (Xinhuanet) -- The inaugural launch from Europe's Guiana Space Center of a Russian Soyuz rocket is likely to be delayed until mid-2009 following delays in production of a specially designed mobile gantry being built in Russia, according to government and industry officials.
Unlike almost every other aspect of the Soyuz launch installation, the mobile gantry is not a copy of the Soyuz launch installations long in use at Russia's Plesetsk and Baikonur cosmodromes.
For Europe's Soyuz operations, the satellite payload will be placed upright onto the vehicle rather than integrated horizontally as is the common Russian practice."
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-01/09/content_7393222.htm
ハッブルの補修、打上げは8月7日
"この補修により、ハッブル宇宙望遠鏡は、ジェイムズ・ウェッブ宇宙望遠鏡（JWST：James Webb Space Telescope）が打ち上げられる2013年まで、稼動することが可能となる。
船長は前回のハッブル補修ミッション（STS-109・HST-SM3B）でも船長を務めた、スコット・アルトマン（Scott Altman）
「NASAはベテランのハッブル宇宙飛行士を揃えてくれた。搭乗クルーとミッションチームは全力で訓練し、打ち上げとハッブルの補修作業を楽しみにしている」（John Grunsfeld）" sorae.jp
http://www.sorae.jp/030604/2188.html
Ariane 5’s Automated Transfer Vehicle payload is positioned for its fueling operations
The Space Fellowship
http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=4149
Britain: Brown government slashes science budget
"On December 11, the Science and Technology Facilities Council announced severe cuts to the budgets of critical physics research and astronomy projects in the UK.
The cuts are being imposed as the result of a £80 million shortfall in the annual STFC budget of £678 million. "
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jan2008/scie-j08.shtml
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Connector removed from Atlantis
再々延期されるAtlantis to Launch
スケジュールは またまた未定に2007/12/28
【TBD】＝to be determined
While a launch on Jan. 10 is no longer achievable, no launch date has been discussed.
False readings from the sensors led to two launch scrubs in December.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html
FLIGHT DAY 1
• Launch
• Payload Bay Door Opening
• Ku‐Band Antenna Deployment
•Shuttle Robotic Arm Activation and Checkout
•Umbilical Well and Handheld External Tank Video and Stills Downlink
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NASA jargon, temp-stow -- temporarily stow it
"so that the station arm can grab Columbus. Again, that’s the whole structural interface between the station’s robotic arm and 30,000 pounds, and
€1 billion worth, of ESA’s hardware
, so they have to make sure that’s on there really good.""We will go to the new nitrogen tank waiting in the payload bay, break torque on its bolts, unbolt it, and Rex will pick it up on the arm. We will fly him up to the P1 Truss where they will put it, what we call in NASA jargon,
temp-stow
-- temporarily stow it, stick it somewhere because we have to let go of it for a minute -- stick it onto the truss, go over to the old tank, finish unbolting it, pull it ou"NASA - Preflight Interview: Stan Love, Mission Specialist
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts122/interview_love.html
FLIGHT DAY 2
•Atlantis Thermal Protection System Survey with Orbiter Boom Sensor System (OBSS)
•Extravehicular Mobility Unit Checkout
•Centerline Camera Installation
•Orbiter Docking System Ring Extension
•Orbital Maneuvering System Pod Survey
•Rendezvous Tools Checkout
COLUMBUS CONTROL CENTER, OBERPFAFFENHOFEN, GERMANY
FLIGHT DAY 3
•Rendezvous with the International Space Station
•Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver Photography by the Expedition 16 Crew •Docking to Harmony (Node 2)/Pressurized Mating Adapter‐2 •Hatch Opening and Welcoming •OBSS Unberth by Canadarm2 •Extravehicular Activity (EVA) 1 Procedure Review
•EVA‐1 Campout by Walheim and Schlegel
FLIGHT DAY 4
•Soyuz Seat Liner Swap and Expedition Crew Exchange by Tani and Eyharts
•EVA‐1 by Walheim and Schlegel (Columbus Grapple Fixture Installation, P1 Truss Nitrogen Tank Assembly Preparation) •Temporary Shuttle Ku‐band Antenna Stowage for Columbus Module Unberth
•Columbus Module Grapple, Unberth and Installation on Starboard Side of Harmony
FLIGHT DAY 5
•Atlantis Thermal Protection System Focused Inspection with OBSS (if required)
•Shuttle Ku‐band Antenna Redeployment
•Col
