LRO and GRAIL - nexus6

Back to the Moon:
NASA Future Forum Presentation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8GHe5b4yZQ
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8826590075126802230&hl=en

ATLAS

"ATLAS stands for Advanced Technology Large-Aperture Space telescope.
Postman's assignment, with the assistance of Northrop Grumman and
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., is to identify new materials and optical design problems involved in construction of a 52-foot (16-meter) space telescope.
"If we tried to build ATLAS now, it would cost at least $10 billion," he said, "which is outside anything the NASA budget can currently afford.""
If ATLAS' designers can pull it off, astronomers in the 2020s should be able to separate the light of nearby stars from planets orbiting them, and then suppress the star's light to reveal the vastly dimmer light reflected from any Earth-like planets circling them in the "habitable zone."
If his study succeeds, and NASA eventually gives ATLAS the green light, the observatory could be launched in the 2020s - and hopefully closer to 2020, Postman said, "so I can actually live to see it."
Local stargazers look past Hubble -- baltimoresun.com
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.telescope16feb16,0,5218868.story

Ares I Crew Launch Vehicle
"Crew transportation to the International Space Station is planned to begin no later than 2014. The first lunar excursion is scheduled for the 2020 timeframe."
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/constellation/ares/aresI.html

NASA is very much a part of this "Great Moon Rush." Later this year, the agency plans to launch the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter LRO, a spacecraft bristling with instruments to map the moon and locate key resources ranging from water to building materials.
In 2011 NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, or GRAIL, will peer deep inside the moon to reveal its anatomyand history. This mission, part of NASA's Discovery Program, will fly twin
spacecraft around the moon for several months to measure its gravity field in great detail and answer questions about how Earth and other planets in our solar system formed.
Both LRO and GRAIL will provide valuable information to help plan for a human US return to the moon in the next decade.
By the end of 2011, nine satellites could be buzzing around up there. That's a pretty good start.
[ Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ]"LRO "
http://lunar.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Date: Oct. 28 Mission: LRO/LCROSS
Launch Vehicle: United Launch Alliance Atlas V
Launch Site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station - Launch Complex 41
Description: The mission objectives of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite are to advance the Vision for Space Exploration by confirming the presence or absence of water ice in a permanently shadowed crater at either the Moon's North or South Pole.

"The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, or GRAIL"
, mission is a part of NASA's Discovery Program. It will cost $375 million and is scheduled to launch in 2011. GRAIL will fly twin spacecraft in tandem orbits around the moon for several months to measure its gravity field in unprecedented detail.
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?news_id=24695

Who's Orbiting the Moon? - NASA
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/20feb_orbitingthemoon.htm?list1073247
physorgにも転載されてた
http://www.physorg.com/news122736123.html

KAGUYA Image Gallery
http://wms.selene.jaxa.jp/index_e.html

The Chang’e-1 --ProjectChina’s Lunar Exploration Program(?)
http://www.cnsa.gov.cn/n615709/n772514/n772543/93747.html

Next month India plans to send its own Chandrayaan-1 probe to orbit the moon. In Sanskrit, "Chandrayaan" means "Moon Craft." +
Chandrayaan-2, planned for 2010 or 2011.

有人宇宙船「神舟七号」の一連の地上実験が完了
"中国空間技術研究院の楊保華院長は20日、有人宇宙船「神舟七号」に新しく搭載するエアロック（圧力調整ができる気密室）の宇宙服を着用した宇宙飛行士による操作と、宇宙船・宇宙飛行士・宇宙服の一連の地上実験が完了したことを明らかにした。"
http://www.people.ne.jp/a/f31741c352fc4d3cb877e3b9d2ff36f8

China to launch Chang'e-2 lunar probe around 2009_English_Xinhua
"BEIJING, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- China plans to launch its second lunar probe, Chang'e-2, around 2009, according to a top satellite scientist. Ye Peijian, chief commander and designer of China's first moon probe satellite system, revealed the plan during an interview program on CCTV, China Central Television."
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-02/22/content_7647480.htm

China set to launch record number of spacecraft in 2008: report
"China plans to send up more than 10 missions this year, said Yang Baohua, head of the China Academy of Space Technology, according to the China Daily.
The missions this year will include two Shenzhou VII spaceships -- one of which will feature the country's first spacewalk -- two environmental satellites and a communications satellite for Venezuela." AFP:
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jHgk6zMWPxODXw5os1veRvpK-pFA

宇宙衛星の打上げで今年はピーク初年　神舟7号等10隻を予定［日中経済通信］
"中国空間技術研究院の楊保華院長
「今年は中国にとって宇宙衛星など打ち上げのピークの最初の年に当たり、今後５年から10年はかつてないほどの衛星打ち上げが行われるだろう」
「2008年には有人宇宙船・神舟７号を打ち上げるほか、環境１号A星とB星、気象衛星・風雲２号、ベネズエラの通信衛星など10隻余りが打ち上げられる"
http://www.newschina.jp/news/category_6/child_25/item_9154.html

China to test deep-sea submersible
"Beijing (PTI): China would test its deep-sea submersible which can reach up to 7,000 metres below sea level, the State Oceanic Administration said.
China would complete building its first-phase deep sea base project by 2010." The Hindu News Update Service
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200802221840.htm

以下のJules Verneは3月8日に
The launch of ESA’s Columbus space laboratory live at ESA and DLR

ESA Portal - Follow the launch of ESA’s Columbus space laboratory live at ESA and DLR
"22 January 2008
ESA PR 05-2008. With NASA’s recent confirmation of the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis on Thursday 7 February, ESA astronauts Hans Schlegel, of Germany, and Leopold Eyharts, of France, are set to deliver ESA’s Columbus laboratory to the International Space Station."
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMX4HEMKBF_index_0.html

ESA Portal - Programme managers meet the Press in Paris as launch of 'Jules Verne' ATV approaches
"Programme managers meet the Press in Paris as launch of 'Jules Verne' ATV approaches
22 January 2008
ESA PR 04-2008. The launch of the first ATV 'Jules Verne' is rapidly approaching. The 20-tonne re-supply and space-tug module will be carried into orbit by a special version of the Ariane 5 launch vehicle called the Ariane 5 Evolution Storable (ES)."
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM1VGEMKBF_index_0.html

Jules Verne goes to space in February 2008 -iTWire
"The Jules Verne will be launched into a 185-mile (300-kilometer) orbit from the ELA-3 launch site at the Guiana Space Center. Its launch date is currently scheduled for February 22, 2008."
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/16104/1066/1/1/

around 2 200 kg of MMH (Monomethylhydrazine) and 3 600 kg MON3 (Mixed Oxides of Nitrogen) propellant which will be used by ATV’s own propulsion system.
Already around 860 kg of nitrogen tetroxide oxidiser (N2O4) and Russian produced UDMH (Unsymmetrical dimehtylhydrazine) have been stored on board ATV.

Crew oxygen for ISS loaded on Jules Verne
"Members of the ATV launch integration team with Jules Verne before fuelling operations got underway in Kourou - ESA Portal 28 January 2008"
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMFHO22VBF_Life_0.html

Footage of a rogue spy satellite destroyed by a Navy SM-3 missile.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhdHkoal31o
動画：米海軍提供の「スパイ衛星撃破の瞬間」 | WIRED VISION
http://wiredvision.jp/news/200802/2008022222.html
衛星爆破に使われたSM-3ミサイルの発射の様子
Sat-Killing Missile Launches - YouTube
"The SM-3 missile that took out a dying spy satellite launches in this Navy video."
http://wwww.youtube.com/watch?v=nrYCxQ7Xt-0

スパイ衛星撃破と破片拡散の精巧なシミュレーション | WIRED VISION
http://wiredvision.jp/news/200802/2008022122.html

Navy Succeeds In Intercepting Non-Functioning Satellite: Black Engineer
"The single modified tactical Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) launched from the US Navy AEGIS cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70), successfully impacted a non-functioning National Reconnaissance Office satellite approximately 247 kilometers (133 nautical miles) over the Pacific Ocean, as it traveled in space at more than 17,000 mph.
Nearly all of the debris will burn up on re-entry within 24-48 hours and the remaining debris should re-enter within 40 days, officials said."
http://www.blackengineer.com/artman/publish/article_806.shtml

US missile hits toxic spy satellite - AFP
HONOLULU, Hawaii (AFP) ― A US missile shot down a rogue US spy satellite in space carrying dangerous toxic fuel, demonstrating the effectiveness of ...
US confident satellite's fuel tank was destroyed - TREND Information
( dpa ) - The US military expressed confidence Thursday that the missile strike against a failed spy satellite succeeded in destroying a hazardous fuel tank ...
US Navy Successfully Destroys Spy Satellite -Associated Content
It reads like something out of a science fiction movie: The Pentagon and the US Navy on a mission to destroy a rogue satellite falling to earth. ...
燃料タンク破壊に自信、米国防総省発表 TBS
アメリカ国防総省は、制御不能となっていた偵察衛星を迎撃ミサイルで撃ち落とした時に、有毒な燃料タンクを狙い通り破壊した可能性が高いと発表
米、衛星撃墜に成功・燃料タンク破壊「高い確信」日本経済新聞
米軍は21日、制御不能に陥った情報収集衛星に迎撃ミサイルを命中させ、当初の狙い通り燃料タンクを破壊した「高い確信」があると発表
.スパイ衛星をミサイルで撃墜、有毒燃料タンクを破壊か CNN Japan
ワシントン（ＣＮＮ）米国防総省は２０日、制御不可能となり、地球に落下、衝突する恐れがあった米軍事用スパイ衛星を同日の東部時間午後１０時半（日本時間２１日 ...
中国、米国に偵察衛星の撃墜情報の開示を求める AFPBB News
米海軍のイージス艦「レイク・エリー（USS Lake Erie）」から発射された迎撃ミサイル「SM-3」（2005年11月17日撮影）
gizmodo
Kaboom: Video of Spy Satellite Getting Shot Down
http://gizmodo.com/359031/video-of-spy-satellite-getting-shot-down
イージス弾頭ミサイルが見事スパイ衛星を撃ち落とす瞬間を捉えた動画 : Gizmodo Japan（ギズモード・ジャパン）
http://www.gizmodo.jp/2008/02/post_3187.html

BBCのディレクターが語る「読者が情報を選択する時代」 | WIRED VISION
"メディアの権威というものは、その大部分が、社会が知るべきことは何かを取捨選択する能力の優秀さに支えられていました。
現場で何が起きているかを伝える記者や特派員を擁する力のある組織を持ち、印刷やのちの放送など、なんであれ情報を広める手段を手に入れることができたものたちだけが、ニュース事業に携わっていられたのです。"
http://wiredvision.jp/news/200802/2008022120.html

中国側の見解は、
"中国政府のダルフール問題特別代表を務める劉貴今氏は21日、訪問先のロンドンで、ダルフール問題とオリンピックはまったく関係がなく、両者を結び付けることには道理がないと述べた。
「スーダンのダルフール問題は中国が引き起こしたものではなく、中国とは本質的に関係のない問題であり、これを使ってオリンピックを政治化しようという動きは理解できない」と述べた。
スピルバーグ監督が北京オリンピックの開閉幕式の芸術顧問辞退を宣言したとの報道が欧米メディアでなされていることに関して、招聘状を送ったが、氏は期限であった昨年の5月10日までにサインをしなかった。そのためもともと芸術顧問として招聘されておらず、辞任は論理的に成り立たない"
http://www.people.ne.jp/a/7f1bf354f25844a096d6a9170d0419d7

グーグル、クウェートでGmailのデータ流出と発表--原因はISPの問題か:- ZDNet Japan
"クウェート国内のあるISPにはサーバのキャッシュ機能に問題があり、GmailユーザーやeBayアカウントに影響を与えているという"
http://japan.zdnet.com/news/sec/story/0,2000056194,20367823,00.htm?tag=zdnw

これが本当の最後…? 「Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.6」がリリース | マイコミジャーナル
"3月1日以降にNetscape Navigator 9.0.0.6を起動すると、FirefoxおよびFlockへの移行を促すリマインダが表示されるとのこと"
http://journal.mycom.co.jp/news/2008/02/21/003/

The following features are new and unique to Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.6.
http://browser.netscape.com/whatsnew/9.0.0.6/
Security Fixes
These security fixes included in Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.12 have been included in Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.6.
Migration
An add-on has been included in this version to help users migrate to either Flock or Firefox

食事は遺伝子発現に影響――人間の食事やファストフードでマウスを実験 | WIRED VISION
"[マックス・プランク研究所チームは過去にも、チンパンジーと人間の遺伝子の違いについて分析している(日本語版記事)が、それによると脳とほかの臓器を比較した場合、脳での遺伝子変異が一番大きいという"
http://wiredvision.jp/news/200802/2008022123.html

次世代DVD戦争終結：Blu-ray陣営に入るロイヤリティー収入の規模と行方は？:スペシャル - ZDNet Japan
"DVDディスクを合法的に製作しようとする企業も、ロイヤリティーを支払わなければならない。
DVD6Cは、2008年1月になってディスク1枚あたりのロイヤリティーを4セントに引き下げたが、数年前は1枚あたり7.5セントだった。
CDも同様だった。アナリストの試算によると、CD1枚につき、Royal Philips Electronicsには約1.8セント、ソニーには約1.2セントがロイヤリティーとして入っていた"
http://japan.zdnet.com/sp/report/story/0,2000056431,20367827,00.htm?tag=zdnw

クリプトン・フューチャー・メディアに聞く ITmedia News
"札幌で「初音ミク」を生み出した、クリプトンの歴史。"
http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/0802/21/news015.html
クリプトン・フューチャー・メディアに聞く（2）：「初音ミク」ができるまで
"日本初のボーカロイド「MEIKO」（女声）は大ヒットした。開発したのはクリプトン・フューチャー・メディア（札幌市）。1000本売れたらヒットと言われるバーチャルインストゥルメント市場で約3000本（当時）売り上げ、新記録を打ち立てた。だが次の「KAITO」（男声）はまるでダメ。06年2月に発売し、500本（当時）しか売れなかった。
3人めとなる「初音ミク」のメガヒットまで、1年半を待つことになる"
http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/0802/22/news013.html

ブログに「射殺します」　サイバーエージェント社長脅迫男を逮捕 - ITmedia
"サイバーエージェントの株価下落で損をしたことに腹を立て、藤田晋社長を脅迫したとして、静岡県の男が逮捕された。"
http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/0802/21/news047.html

Back to the Moon:
NASA Future Forum Presentation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8GHe5b4yZQ
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8826590075126802230&hl=en

ATLAS

"ATLAS stands for Advanced Technology Large-Aperture Space telescope.
Postman's assignment, with the assistance of Northrop Grumman and
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., is to identify new materials and optical design problems involved in construction of a 52-foot (16-meter) space telescope.
"If we tried to build ATLAS now, it would cost at least $10 billion," he said, "which is outside anything the NASA budget can currently afford.""
If ATLAS' designers can pull it off, astronomers in the 2020s should be able to separate the light of nearby stars from planets orbiting them, and then suppress the star's light to reveal the vastly dimmer light reflected from any Earth-like planets circling them in the "habitable zone."
If his study succeeds, and NASA eventually gives ATLAS the green light, the observatory could be launched in the 2020s - and hopefully closer to 2020, Postman said, "so I can actually live to see it."
Local stargazers look past Hubble -- baltimoresun.com
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.telescope16feb16,0,5218868.story

NASA is very much a part of this "Great Moon Rush." Later this year, the agency plans to launch the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter LRO, a spacecraft bristling with instruments to map the moon and locate key resources ranging from water to building materials.
In 2011 NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, or GRAIL, will peer deep inside the moon to reveal its anatomyand history. This mission, part of NASA's Discovery Program, will fly twin
spacecraft around the moon for several months to measure its gravity field in great detail and answer questions about how Earth and other planets in our solar system formed.
Both LRO and GRAIL will provide valuable information to help plan for a human US return to the moon in the next decade.
By the end of 2011, nine satellites could be buzzing around up there. That's a pretty good start.
[ Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ]"LRO "
http://lunar.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Date: Oct. 28 Mission: LRO/LCROSS
Launch Vehicle: United Launch Alliance Atlas V
Launch Site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station - Launch Complex 41
Description: The mission objectives of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite are to advance the Vision for Space Exploration by confirming the presence or absence of water ice in a permanently shadowed crater at either the Moon's North or South Pole.

"The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, or GRAIL"
, mission is a part of NASA's Discovery Program. It will cost $375 million and is scheduled to launch in 2011. GRAIL will fly twin spacecraft in tandem orbits around the moon for several months to measure its gravity field in unprecedented detail.
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?news_id=24695

Who's Orbiting the Moon? - NASA
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/20feb_orbitingthemoon.htm?list1073247
physorgにも転載されてた
http://www.physorg.com/news122736123.html

KAGUYA Image Gallery
http://wms.selene.jaxa.jp/index_e.html

The Chang’e-1 --ProjectChina’s Lunar Exploration Program(?)
http://www.cnsa.gov.cn/n615709/n772514/n772543/93747.html

Next month India plans to send its own Chandrayaan-1 probe to orbit the moon. In Sanskrit, "Chandrayaan" means "Moon Craft." +
Chandrayaan-2, planned for 2010 or 2011.

有人宇宙船「神舟七号」の一連の地上実験が完了
"中国空間技術研究院の楊保華院長は20日、有人宇宙船「神舟七号」に新しく搭載するエアロック（圧力調整ができる気密室）の宇宙服を着用した宇宙飛行士による操作と、宇宙船・宇宙飛行士・宇宙服の一連の地上実験が完了したことを明らかにした。"
http://www.people.ne.jp/a/f31741c352fc4d3cb877e3b9d2ff36f8

China to launch Chang'e-2 lunar probe around 2009_English_Xinhua
"BEIJING, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- China plans to launch its second lunar probe, Chang'e-2, around 2009, according to a top satellite scientist. Ye Peijian, chief commander and designer of China's first moon probe satellite system, revealed the plan during an interview program on CCTV, China Central Television."
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-02/22/content_7647480.htm

China set to launch record number of spacecraft in 2008: report
"China plans to send up more than 10 missions this year, said Yang Baohua, head of the China Academy of Space Technology, according to the China Daily.
The missions this year will include two Shenzhou VII spaceships -- one of which will feature the country's first spacewalk -- two environmental satellites and a communications satellite for Venezuela." AFP:
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jHgk6zMWPxODXw5os1veRvpK-pFA

宇宙衛星の打上げで今年はピーク初年　神舟7号等10隻を予定［日中経済通信］
"中国空間技術研究院の楊保華院長
「今年は中国にとって宇宙衛星など打ち上げのピークの最初の年に当たり、今後５年から10年はかつてないほどの衛星打ち上げが行われるだろう」
「2008年には有人宇宙船・神舟７号を打ち上げるほか、環境１号A星とB星、気象衛星・風雲２号、ベネズエラの通信衛星など10隻余りが打ち上げられる"
http://www.newschina.jp/news/category_6/child_25/item_9154.html

China to test deep-sea submersible
"Beijing (PTI): China would test its deep-sea submersible which can reach up to 7,000 metres below sea level, the State Oceanic Administration said.
China would complete building its first-phase deep sea base project by 2010." The Hindu News Update Service
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200802221840.htm

以下のJules Verneは3月8日に
The launch of ESA’s Columbus space laboratory live at ESA and DLR

ESA Portal - Follow the launch of ESA’s Columbus space laboratory live at ESA and DLR
"22 January 2008
ESA PR 05-2008. With NASA’s recent confirmation of the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis on Thursday 7 February, ESA astronauts Hans Schlegel, of Germany, and Leopold Eyharts, of France, are set to deliver ESA’s Columbus laboratory to the International Space Station."
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMX4HEMKBF_index_0.html

ESA Portal - Programme managers meet the Press in Paris as launch of 'Jules Verne' ATV approaches
"Programme managers meet the Press in Paris as launch of 'Jules Verne' ATV approaches
22 January 2008
ESA PR 04-2008. The launch of the first ATV 'Jules Verne' is rapidly approaching. The 20-tonne re-supply and space-tug module will be carried into orbit by a special version of the Ariane 5 launch vehicle called the Ariane 5 Evolution Storable (ES)."
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM1VGEMKBF_index_0.html

Jules Verne goes to space in February 2008 -iTWire
"The Jules Verne will be launched into a 185-mile (300-kilometer) orbit from the ELA-3 launch site at the Guiana Space Center. Its launch date is currently scheduled for February 22, 2008."
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/16104/1066/1/1/

around 2 200 kg of MMH (Monomethylhydrazine) and 3 600 kg MON3 (Mixed Oxides of Nitrogen) propellant which will be used by ATV’s own propulsion system.
Already around 860 kg of nitrogen tetroxide oxidiser (N2O4) and Russian produced UDMH (Unsymmetrical dimehtylhydrazine) have been stored on board ATV.

スパイ衛星撃破と破片拡散の精巧なシミュレーション | WIRED VISION
http://wiredvision.jp/news/200802/2008022122.html

Navy Succeeds In Intercepting Non-Functioning Satellite: Black Engineer
"The single modified tactical Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) launched from the US Navy AEGIS cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70), successfully impacted a non-functioning National Reconnaissance Office satellite approximately 247 kilometers (133 nautical miles) over the Pacific Ocean, as it traveled in space at more than 17,000 mph.
Nearly all of the debris will burn up on re-entry within 24-48 hours and the remaining debris should re-enter within 40 days, officials said."
http://www.blackengineer.com/artman/publish/article_806.shtml

US missile hits toxic spy satellite - AFP
HONOLULU, Hawaii (AFP) ― A US missile shot down a rogue US spy satellite in space carrying dangerous toxic fuel, demonstrating the effectiveness of ...
US confident satellite's fuel tank was destroyed - TREND Information
( dpa ) - The US military expressed confidence Thursday that the missile strike against a failed spy satellite succeeded in destroying a hazardous fuel tank ...
US Navy Successfully Destroys Spy Satellite -Associated Content
It reads like something out of a science fiction movie: The Pentagon and the US Navy on a mission to destroy a rogue satellite falling to earth. ...
燃料タンク破壊に自信、米国防総省発表 TBS
アメリカ国防総省は、制御不能となっていた偵察衛星を迎撃ミサイルで撃ち落とした時に、有毒な燃料タンクを狙い通り破壊した可能性が高いと発表
米、衛星撃墜に成功・燃料タンク破壊「高い確信」日本経済新聞
米軍は21日、制御不能に陥った情報収集衛星に迎撃ミサイルを命中させ、当初の狙い通り燃料タンクを破壊した「高い確信」があると発表
.スパイ衛星をミサイルで撃墜、有毒燃料タンクを破壊か CNN Japan
ワシントン（ＣＮＮ）米国防総省は２０日、制御不可能となり、地球に落下、衝突する恐れがあった米軍事用スパイ衛星を同日の東部時間午後１０時半（日本時間２１日 ...
中国、米国に偵察衛星の撃墜情報の開示を求める AFPBB News
米海軍のイージス艦「レイク・エリー（USS Lake Erie）」から発射された迎撃ミサイル「SM-3」（2005年11月17日撮影）
gizmodo
Kaboom: Video of Spy Satellite Getting Shot Down
http://gizmodo.com/359031/video-of-spy-satellite-getting-shot-down
イージス弾頭ミサイルが見事スパイ衛星を撃ち落とす瞬間を捉えた動画 : Gizmodo Japan（ギズモード・ジャパン）
http://www.gizmodo.jp/2008/02/post_3187.html

BBCのディレクターが語る「読者が情報を選択する時代」 | WIRED VISION
"メディアの権威というものは、その大部分が、社会が知るべきことは何かを取捨選択する能力の優秀さに支えられていました。
現場で何が起きているかを伝える記者や特派員を擁する力のある組織を持ち、印刷やのちの放送など、なんであれ情報を広める手段を手に入れることができたものたちだけが、ニュース事業に携わっていられたのです。"
http://wiredvision.jp/news/200802/2008022120.html

中国側の見解は、
"中国政府のダルフール問題特別代表を務める劉貴今氏は21日、訪問先のロンドンで、ダルフール問題とオリンピックはまったく関係がなく、両者を結び付けることには道理がないと述べた。
「スーダンのダルフール問題は中国が引き起こしたものではなく、中国とは本質的に関係のない問題であり、これを使ってオリンピックを政治化しようという動きは理解できない」と述べた。
スピルバーグ監督が北京オリンピックの開閉幕式の芸術顧問辞退を宣言したとの報道が欧米メディアでなされていることに関して、招聘状を送ったが、氏は期限であった昨年の5月10日までにサインをしなかった。そのためもともと芸術顧問として招聘されておらず、辞任は論理的に成り立たない"
http://www.people.ne.jp/a/7f1bf354f25844a096d6a9170d0419d7

Back to the Moon:
NASA Future Forum Presentation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8GHe5b4yZQ
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8826590075126802230&hl=en

ATLAS

"ATLAS stands for Advanced Technology Large-Aperture Space telescope.
Postman's assignment, with the assistance of Northrop Grumman and
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., is to identify new materials and optical design problems involved in construction of a 52-foot (16-meter) space telescope.
"If we tried to build ATLAS now, it would cost at least $10 billion," he said, "which is outside anything the NASA budget can currently afford.""
If ATLAS' designers can pull it off, astronomers in the 2020s should be able to separate the light of nearby stars from planets orbiting them, and then suppress the star's light to reveal the vastly dimmer light reflected from any Earth-like planets circling them in the "habitable zone."
If his study succeeds, and NASA eventually gives ATLAS the green light, the observatory could be launched in the 2020s - and hopefully closer to 2020, Postman said, "so I can actually live to see it."
Local stargazers look past Hubble -- baltimoresun.com
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.telescope16feb16,0,5218868.story

NASA is very much a part of this "Great Moon Rush." Later this year, the agency plans to launch the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter LRO, a spacecraft bristling with instruments to map the moon and locate key resources ranging from water to building materials.
In 2011 NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, or GRAIL, will peer deep inside the moon to reveal its anatomyand history. This mission, part of NASA's Discovery Program, will fly twin
spacecraft around the moon for several months to measure its gravity field in great detail and answer questions about how Earth and other planets in our solar system formed.
Both LRO and GRAIL will provide valuable information to help plan for a human US return to the moon in the next decade.
By the end of 2011, nine satellites could be buzzing around up there. That's a pretty good start.
[ Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ]"LRO "
http://lunar.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Date: Oct. 28 Mission: LRO/LCROSS
Launch Vehicle: United Launch Alliance Atlas V
Launch Site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station - Launch Complex 41
Description: The mission objectives of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite are to advance the Vision for Space Exploration by confirming the presence or absence of water ice in a permanently shadowed crater at either the Moon's North or South Pole.

"The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, or GRAIL"
, mission is a part of NASA's Discovery Program. It will cost $375 million and is scheduled to launch in 2011. GRAIL will fly twin spacecraft in tandem orbits around the moon for several months to measure its gravity field in unprecedented detail.
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?news_id=24695

Who's Orbiting the Moon? - NASA
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/20feb_orbitingthemoon.htm?list1073247
physorgにも転載されてた
http://www.physorg.com/news122736123.html

KAGUYA Image Gallery
http://wms.selene.jaxa.jp/index_e.html

The Chang’e-1 --ProjectChina’s Lunar Exploration Program(?)
http://www.cnsa.gov.cn/n615709/n772514/n772543/93747.html

Next month India plans to send its own Chandrayaan-1 probe to orbit the moon. In Sanskrit, "Chandrayaan" means "Moon Craft." +
Chandrayaan-2, planned for 2010 or 2011.

有人宇宙船「神舟七号」の一連の地上実験が完了
"中国空間技術研究院の楊保華院長は20日、有人宇宙船「神舟七号」に新しく搭載するエアロック（圧力調整ができる気密室）の宇宙服を着用した宇宙飛行士による操作と、宇宙船・宇宙飛行士・宇宙服の一連の地上実験が完了したことを明らかにした。"
http://www.people.ne.jp/a/f31741c352fc4d3cb877e3b9d2ff36f8

China to launch Chang'e-2 lunar probe around 2009_English_Xinhua
"BEIJING, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- China plans to launch its second lunar probe, Chang'e-2, around 2009, according to a top satellite scientist. Ye Peijian, chief commander and designer of China's first moon probe satellite system, revealed the plan during an interview program on CCTV, China Central Television."
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-02/22/content_7647480.htm

China set to launch record number of spacecraft in 2008: report
"China plans to send up more than 10 missions this year, said Yang Baohua, head of the China Academy of Space Technology, according to the China Daily.
The missions this year will include two Shenzhou VII spaceships -- one of which will feature the country's first spacewalk -- two environmental satellites and a communications satellite for Venezuela." AFP:
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jHgk6zMWPxODXw5os1veRvpK-pFA

宇宙衛星の打上げで今年はピーク初年　神舟7号等10隻を予定［日中経済通信］
"中国空間技術研究院の楊保華院長
「今年は中国にとって宇宙衛星など打ち上げのピークの最初の年に当たり、今後５年から10年はかつてないほどの衛星打ち上げが行われるだろう」
「2008年には有人宇宙船・神舟７号を打ち上げるほか、環境１号A星とB星、気象衛星・風雲２号、ベネズエラの通信衛星など10隻余りが打ち上げられる"
http://www.newschina.jp/news/category_6/child_25/item_9154.html

China to test deep-sea submersible
"Beijing (PTI): China would test its deep-sea submersible which can reach up to 7,000 metres below sea level, the State Oceanic Administration said.
China would complete building its first-phase deep sea base project by 2010." The Hindu News Update Service
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200802221840.htm

以下のJules Verneは3月8日に
The launch of ESA’s Columbus space laboratory live at ESA and DLR

ESA Portal - Follow the launch of ESA’s Columbus space laboratory live at ESA and DLR
"22 January 2008
ESA PR 05-2008. With NASA’s recent confirmation of the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis on Thursday 7 February, ESA astronauts Hans Schlegel, of Germany, and Leopold Eyharts, of France, are set to deliver ESA’s Columbus laboratory to the International Space Station."
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMX4HEMKBF_index_0.html

ESA Portal - Programme managers meet the Press in Paris as launch of 'Jules Verne' ATV approaches
"Programme managers meet the Press in Paris as launch of 'Jules Verne' ATV approaches
22 January 2008
ESA PR 04-2008. The launch of the first ATV 'Jules Verne' is rapidly approaching. The 20-tonne re-supply and space-tug module will be carried into orbit by a special version of the Ariane 5 launch vehicle called the Ariane 5 Evolution Storable (ES)."
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM1VGEMKBF_index_0.html

Jules Verne goes to space in February 2008 -iTWire
"The Jules Verne will be launched into a 185-mile (300-kilometer) orbit from the ELA-3 launch site at the Guiana Space Center. Its launch date is currently scheduled for February 22, 2008."
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/16104/1066/1/1/

around 2 200 kg of MMH (Monomethylhydrazine) and 3 600 kg MON3 (Mixed Oxides of Nitrogen) propellant which will be used by ATV’s own propulsion system.
Already around 860 kg of nitrogen tetroxide oxidiser (N2O4) and Russian produced UDMH (Unsymmetrical dimehtylhydrazine) have been stored on board ATV.

スパイ衛星撃破と破片拡散の精巧なシミュレーション | WIRED VISION
http://wiredvision.jp/news/200802/2008022122.html

Navy Succeeds In Intercepting Non-Functioning Satellite: Black Engineer
"The single modified tactical Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) launched from the US Navy AEGIS cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70), successfully impacted a non-functioning National Reconnaissance Office satellite approximately 247 kilometers (133 nautical miles) over the Pacific Ocean, as it traveled in space at more than 17,000 mph.
Nearly all of the debris will burn up on re-entry within 24-48 hours and the remaining debris should re-enter within 40 days, officials said."
http://www.blackengineer.com/artman/publish/article_806.shtml

US missile hits toxic spy satellite - AFP
HONOLULU, Hawaii (AFP) ― A US missile shot down a rogue US spy satellite in space carrying dangerous toxic fuel, demonstrating the effectiveness of ...
US confident satellite's fuel tank was destroyed - TREND Information
( dpa ) - The US military expressed confidence Thursday that the missile strike against a failed spy satellite succeeded in destroying a hazardous fuel tank ...
US Navy Successfully Destroys Spy Satellite -Associated Content
It reads like something out of a science fiction movie: The Pentagon and the US Navy on a mission to destroy a rogue satellite falling to earth. ...
燃料タンク破壊に自信、米国防総省発表 TBS
アメリカ国防総省は、制御不能となっていた偵察衛星を迎撃ミサイルで撃ち落とした時に、有毒な燃料タンクを狙い通り破壊した可能性が高いと発表
米、衛星撃墜に成功・燃料タンク破壊「高い確信」日本経済新聞
米軍は21日、制御不能に陥った情報収集衛星に迎撃ミサイルを命中させ、当初の狙い通り燃料タンクを破壊した「高い確信」があると発表
.スパイ衛星をミサイルで撃墜、有毒燃料タンクを破壊か CNN Japan
ワシントン（ＣＮＮ）米国防総省は２０日、制御不可能となり、地球に落下、衝突する恐れがあった米軍事用スパイ衛星を同日の東部時間午後１０時半（日本時間２１日 ...
中国、米国に偵察衛星の撃墜情報の開示を求める AFPBB News
米海軍のイージス艦「レイク・エリー（USS Lake Erie）」から発射された迎撃ミサイル「SM-3」（2005年11月17日撮影）
gizmodo
Kaboom: Video of Spy Satellite Getting Shot Down
http://gizmodo.com/359031/video-of-spy-satellite-getting-shot-down
イージス弾頭ミサイルが見事スパイ衛星を撃ち落とす瞬間を捉えた動画 : Gizmodo Japan（ギズモード・ジャパン）
http://www.gizmodo.jp/2008/02/post_3187.html

BBCのディレクターが語る「読者が情報を選択する時代」 | WIRED VISION
"メディアの権威というものは、その大部分が、社会が知るべきことは何かを取捨選択する能力の優秀さに支えられていました。
現場で何が起きているかを伝える記者や特派員を擁する力のある組織を持ち、印刷やのちの放送など、なんであれ情報を広める手段を手に入れることができたものたちだけが、ニュース事業に携わっていられたのです。"
http://wiredvision.jp/news/200802/2008022120.html

中国側の見解は、
"中国政府のダルフール問題特別代表を務める劉貴今氏は21日、訪問先のロンドンで、ダルフール問題とオリンピックはまったく関係がなく、両者を結び付けることには道理がないと述べた。
「スーダンのダルフール問題は中国が引き起こしたものではなく、中国とは本質的に関係のない問題であり、これを使ってオリンピックを政治化しようという動きは理解できない」と述べた。
スピルバーグ監督が北京オリンピックの開閉幕式の芸術顧問辞退を宣言したとの報道が欧米メディアでなされていることに関して、招聘状を送ったが、氏は期限であった昨年の5月10日までにサインをしなかった。そのためもともと芸術顧問として招聘されておらず、辞任は論理的に成り立たない"
http://www.people.ne.jp/a/7f1bf354f25844a096d6a9170d0419d7

Back to the Moon:
NASA Future Forum Presentation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8GHe5b4yZQ
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8826590075126802230&hl=en

ATLAS

"ATLAS stands for Advanced Technology Large-Aperture Space telescope.
Postman's assignment, with the assistance of Northrop Grumman and
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., is to identify new materials and optical design problems involved in construction of a 52-foot (16-meter) space telescope.
"If we tried to build ATLAS now, it would cost at least $10 billion," he said, "which is outside anything the NASA budget can currently afford.""
If ATLAS' designers can pull it off, astronomers in the 2020s should be able to separate the light of nearby stars from planets orbiting them, and then suppress the star's light to reveal the vastly dimmer light reflected from any Earth-like planets circling them in the "habitable zone."
If his study succeeds, and NASA eventually gives ATLAS the green light, the observatory could be launched in the 2020s - and hopefully closer to 2020, Postman said, "so I can actually live to see it."
Local stargazers look past Hubble -- baltimoresun.com
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.telescope16feb16,0,5218868.story

NASA is very much a part of this "Great Moon Rush." Later this year, the agency plans to launch the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter LRO, a spacecraft bristling with instruments to map the moon and locate key resources ranging from water to building materials.
In 2011 NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, or GRAIL, will peer deep inside the moon to reveal its anatomyand history. This mission, part of NASA's Discovery Program, will fly twin
spacecraft around the moon for several months to measure its gravity field in great detail and answer questions about how Earth and other planets in our solar system formed.
Both LRO and GRAIL will provide valuable information to help plan for a human US return to the moon in the next decade.
By the end of 2011, nine satellites could be buzzing around up there. That's a pretty good start.
[ Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ]"LRO "
http://lunar.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Date: Oct. 28 Mission: LRO/LCROSS
Launch Vehicle: United Launch Alliance Atlas V
Launch Site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station - Launch Complex 41
Description: The mission objectives of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite are to advance the Vision for Space Exploration by confirming the presence or absence of water ice in a permanently shadowed crater at either the Moon's North or South Pole.

"The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, or GRAIL"
, mission is a part of NASA's Discovery Program. It will cost $375 million and is scheduled to launch in 2011. GRAIL will fly twin spacecraft in tandem orbits around the moon for several months to measure its gravity field in unprecedented detail.
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?news_id=24695

Who's Orbiting the Moon? - NASA
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/20feb_orbitingthemoon.htm?list1073247
physorgにも転載されてた
http://www.physorg.com/news122736123.html

KAGUYA Image Gallery
http://wms.selene.jaxa.jp/index_e.html

The Chang’e-1 --ProjectChina’s Lunar Exploration Program(?)
http://www.cnsa.gov.cn/n615709/n772514/n772543/93747.html

Next month India plans to send its own Chandrayaan-1 probe to orbit the moon. In Sanskrit, "Chandrayaan" means "Moon Craft." +
Chandrayaan-2, planned for 2010 or 2011.

有人宇宙船「神舟七号」の一連の地上実験が完了
"中国空間技術研究院の楊保華院長は20日、有人宇宙船「神舟七号」に新しく搭載するエアロック（圧力調整ができる気密室）の宇宙服を着用した宇宙飛行士による操作と、宇宙船・宇宙飛行士・宇宙服の一連の地上実験が完了したことを明らかにした。"
http://www.people.ne.jp/a/f31741c352fc4d3cb877e3b9d2ff36f8

China to launch Chang'e-2 lunar probe around 2009_English_Xinhua
"BEIJING, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- China plans to launch its second lunar probe, Chang'e-2, around 2009, according to a top satellite scientist. Ye Peijian, chief commander and designer of China's first moon probe satellite system, revealed the plan during an interview program on CCTV, China Central Television."
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-02/22/content_7647480.htm

China set to launch record number of spacecraft in 2008: report
"China plans to send up more than 10 missions this year, said Yang Baohua, head of the China Academy of Space Technology, according to the China Daily.
The missions this year will include two Shenzhou VII spaceships -- one of which will feature the country's first spacewalk -- two environmental satellites and a communications satellite for Venezuela." AFP:
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jHgk6zMWPxODXw5os1veRvpK-pFA

宇宙衛星の打上げで今年はピーク初年　神舟7号等10隻を予定［日中経済通信］
"中国空間技術研究院の楊保華院長
「今年は中国にとって宇宙衛星など打ち上げのピークの最初の年に当たり、今後５年から10年はかつてないほどの衛星打ち上げが行われるだろう」
「2008年には有人宇宙船・神舟７号を打ち上げるほか、環境１号A星とB星、気象衛星・風雲２号、ベネズエラの通信衛星など10隻余りが打ち上げられる"
http://www.newschina.jp/news/category_6/child_25/item_9154.html

China to test deep-sea submersible
"Beijing (PTI): China would test its deep-sea submersible which can reach up to 7,000 metres below sea level, the State Oceanic Administration said.
China would complete building its first-phase deep sea base project by 2010." The Hindu News Update Service
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200802221840.htm

以下のJules Verneは3月8日に
The launch of ESA’s Columbus space laboratory live at ESA and DLR

ESA Portal - Follow the launch of ESA’s Columbus space laboratory live at ESA and DLR
"22 January 2008
ESA PR 05-2008. With NASA’s recent confirmation of the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis on Thursday 7 February, ESA astronauts Hans Schlegel, of Germany, and Leopold Eyharts, of France, are set to deliver ESA’s Columbus laboratory to the International Space Station."
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMX4HEMKBF_index_0.html

ESA Portal - Programme managers meet the Press in Paris as launch of 'Jules Verne' ATV approaches
"Programme managers meet the Press in Paris as launch of 'Jules Verne' ATV approaches
22 January 2008
ESA PR 04-2008. The launch of the first ATV 'Jules Verne' is rapidly approaching. The 20-tonne re-supply and space-tug module will be carried into orbit by a special version of the Ariane 5 launch vehicle called the Ariane 5 Evolution Storable (ES)."
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM1VGEMKBF_index_0.html

Jules Verne goes to space in February 2008 -iTWire
"The Jules Verne will be launched into a 185-mile (300-kilometer) orbit from the ELA-3 launch site at the Guiana Space Center. Its launch date is currently scheduled for February 22, 2008."
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/16104/1066/1/1/

around 2 200 kg of MMH (Monomethylhydrazine) and 3 600 kg MON3 (Mixed Oxides of Nitrogen) propellant which will be used by ATV’s own propulsion system.
Already around 860 kg of nitrogen tetroxide oxidiser (N2O4) and Russian produced UDMH (Unsymmetrical dimehtylhydrazine) have been stored on board ATV.

スパイ衛星撃破と破片拡散の精巧なシミュレーション | WIRED VISION
http://wiredvision.jp/news/200802/2008022122.html

Navy Succeeds In Intercepting Non-Functioning Satellite: Black Engineer
"The single modified tactical Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) launched from the US Navy AEGIS cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70), successfully impacted a non-functioning National Reconnaissance Office satellite approximately 247 kilometers (133 nautical miles) over the Pacific Ocean, as it traveled in space at more than 17,000 mph.
Nearly all of the debris will burn up on re-entry within 24-48 hours and the remaining debris should re-enter within 40 days, officials said."
http://www.blackengineer.com/artman/publish/article_806.shtml

US missile hits toxic spy satellite - AFP
HONOLULU, Hawaii (AFP) ― A US missile shot down a rogue US spy satellite in space carrying dangerous toxic fuel, demonstrating the effectiveness of ...
US confident satellite's fuel tank was destroyed - TREND Information
( dpa ) - The US military expressed confidence Thursday that the missile strike against a failed spy satellite succeeded in destroying a hazardous fuel tank ...
US Navy Successfully Destroys Spy Satellite -Associated Content
It reads like something out of a science fiction movie: The Pentagon and the US Navy on a mission to destroy a rogue satellite falling to earth. ...
燃料タンク破壊に自信、米国防総省発表 TBS
アメリカ国防総省は、制御不能となっていた偵察衛星を迎撃ミサイルで撃ち落とした時に、有毒な燃料タンクを狙い通り破壊した可能性が高いと発表
米、衛星撃墜に成功・燃料タンク破壊「高い確信」日本経済新聞
米軍は21日、制御不能に陥った情報収集衛星に迎撃ミサイルを命中させ、当初の狙い通り燃料タンクを破壊した「高い確信」があると発表
.スパイ衛星をミサイルで撃墜、有毒燃料タンクを破壊か CNN Japan
ワシントン（ＣＮＮ）米国防総省は２０日、制御不可能となり、地球に落下、衝突する恐れがあった米軍事用スパイ衛星を同日の東部時間午後１０時半（日本時間２１日 ...
中国、米国に偵察衛星の撃墜情報の開示を求める AFPBB News
米海軍のイージス艦「レイク・エリー（USS Lake Erie）」から発射された迎撃ミサイル「SM-3」（2005年11月17日撮影）
gizmodo
Kaboom: Video of Spy Satellite Getting Shot Down
http://gizmodo.com/359031/video-of-spy-satellite-getting-shot-down
イージス弾頭ミサイルが見事スパイ衛星を撃ち落とす瞬間を捉えた動画 : Gizmodo Japan（ギズモード・ジャパン）
http://www.gizmodo.jp/2008/02/post_3187.html

BBCのディレクターが語る「読者が情報を選択する時代」 | WIRED VISION
"メディアの権威というものは、その大部分が、社会が知るべきことは何かを取捨選択する能力の優秀さに支えられていました。
現場で何が起きているかを伝える記者や特派員を擁する力のある組織を持ち、印刷やのちの放送など、なんであれ情報を広める手段を手に入れることができたものたちだけが、ニュース事業に携わっていられたのです。"
http://wiredvision.jp/news/200802/2008022120.html

中国側の見解は、
"中国政府のダルフール問題特別代表を務める劉貴今氏は21日、訪問先のロンドンで、ダルフール問題とオリンピックはまったく関係がなく、両者を結び付けることには道理がないと述べた。
「スーダンのダルフール問題は中国が引き起こしたものではなく、中国とは本質的に関係のない問題であり、これを使ってオリンピックを政治化しようという動きは理解できない」と述べた。
スピルバーグ監督が北京オリンピックの開閉幕式の芸術顧問辞退を宣言したとの報道が欧米メディアでなされていることに関して、招聘状を送ったが、氏は期限であった昨年の5月10日までにサインをしなかった。そのためもともと芸術顧問として招聘されておらず、辞任は論理的に成り立たない"
http://www.people.ne.jp/a/7f1bf354f25844a096d6a9170d0419d7

Back to the Moon:
NASA Future Forum Presentation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8GHe5b4yZQ
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8826590075126802230&hl=en

ATLAS

"ATLAS stands for Advanced Technology Large-Aperture Space telescope.
Postman's assignment, with the assistance of Northrop Grumman and
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., is to identify new materials and optical design problems involved in construction of a 52-foot (16-meter) space telescope.
"If we tried to build ATLAS now, it would cost at least $10 billion," he said, "which is outside anything the NASA budget can currently afford.""
If ATLAS' designers can pull it off, astronomers in the 2020s should be able to separate the light of nearby stars from planets orbiting them, and then suppress the star's light to reveal the vastly dimmer light reflected from any Earth-like planets circling them in the "habitable zone."
If his study succeeds, and NASA eventually gives ATLAS the green light, the observatory could be launched in the 2020s - and hopefully closer to 2020, Postman said, "so I can actually live to see it."
Local stargazers look past Hubble -- baltimoresun.com
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.telescope16feb16,0,5218868.story

NASA is very much a part of this "Great Moon Rush." Later this year, the agency plans to launch the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter LRO, a spacecraft bristling with instruments to map the moon and locate key resources ranging from water to building materials.
In 2011 NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, or GRAIL, will peer deep inside the moon to reveal its anatomyand history. This mission, part of NASA's Discovery Program, will fly twin
spacecraft around the moon for several months to measure its gravity field in great detail and answer questions about how Earth and other planets in our solar system formed.
Both LRO and GRAIL will provide valuable information to help plan for a human US return to the moon in the next decade.
By the end of 2011, nine satellites could be buzzing around up there. That's a pretty good start.
[ Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ]"LRO "
http://lunar.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Date: Oct. 28 Mission: LRO/LCROSS
Launch Vehicle: United Launch Alliance Atlas V
Launch Site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station - Launch Complex 41
Description: The mission objectives of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite are to advance the Vision for Space Exploration by confirming the presence or absence of water ice in a permanently shadowed crater at either the Moon's North or South Pole.

"The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, or GRAIL"
, mission is a part of NASA's Discovery Program. It will cost $375 million and is scheduled to launch in 2011. GRAIL will fly twin spacecraft in tandem orbits around the moon for several months to measure its gravity field in unprecedented detail.
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?news_id=24695

Who's Orbiting the Moon? - NASA
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/20feb_orbitingthemoon.htm?list1073247
physorgにも転載されてた
http://www.physorg.com/news122736123.html

KAGUYA Image Gallery
http://wms.selene.jaxa.jp/index_e.html

The Chang’e-1 --ProjectChina’s Lunar Exploration Program(?)
http://www.cnsa.gov.cn/n615709/n772514/n772543/93747.html

Next month India plans to send its own Chandrayaan-1 probe to orbit the moon. In Sanskrit, "Chandrayaan" means "Moon Craft." +
Chandrayaan-2, planned for 2010 or 2011.

有人宇宙船「神舟七号」の一連の地上実験が完了
"中国空間技術研究院の楊保華院長は20日、有人宇宙船「神舟七号」に新しく搭載するエアロック（圧力調整ができる気密室）の宇宙服を着用した宇宙飛行士による操作と、宇宙船・宇宙飛行士・宇宙服の一連の地上実験が完了したことを明らかにした。"
http://www.people.ne.jp/a/f31741c352fc4d3cb877e3b9d2ff36f8

China to launch Chang'e-2 lunar probe around 2009_English_Xinhua
"BEIJING, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- China plans to launch its second lunar probe, Chang'e-2, around 2009, according to a top satellite scientist. Ye Peijian, chief commander and designer of China's first moon probe satellite system, revealed the plan during an interview program on CCTV, China Central Television."
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-02/22/content_7647480.htm

China set to launch record number of spacecraft in 2008: report
"China plans to send up more than 10 missions this year, said Yang Baohua, head of the China Academy of Space Technology, according to the China Daily.
The missions this year will include two Shenzhou VII spaceships -- one of which will feature the country's first spacewalk -- two environmental satellites and a communications satellite for Venezuela." AFP:
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jHgk6zMWPxODXw5os1veRvpK-pFA

宇宙衛星の打上げで今年はピーク初年　神舟7号等10隻を予定［日中経済通信］
"中国空間技術研究院の楊保華院長
「今年は中国にとって宇宙衛星など打ち上げのピークの最初の年に当たり、今後５年から10年はかつてないほどの衛星打ち上げが行われるだろう」
「2008年には有人宇宙船・神舟７号を打ち上げるほか、環境１号A星とB星、気象衛星・風雲２号、ベネズエラの通信衛星など10隻余りが打ち上げられる"
http://www.newschina.jp/news/category_6/child_25/item_9154.html

China to test deep-sea submersible
"Beijing (PTI): China would test its deep-sea submersible which can reach up to 7,000 metres below sea level, the State Oceanic Administration said.
China would complete building its first-phase deep sea base project by 2010." The Hindu News Update Service
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200802221840.htm

以下のJules Verneは3月8日に
The launch of ESA’s Columbus space laboratory live at ESA and DLR

ESA Portal - Follow the launch of ESA’s Columbus space laboratory live at ESA and DLR
"22 January 2008
ESA PR 05-2008. With NASA’s recent confirmation of the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis on Thursday 7 February, ESA astronauts Hans Schlegel, of Germany, and Leopold Eyharts, of France, are set to deliver ESA’s Columbus laboratory to the International Space Station."
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMX4HEMKBF_index_0.html

ESA Portal - Programme managers meet the Press in Paris as launch of 'Jules Verne' ATV approaches
"Programme managers meet the Press in Paris as launch of 'Jules Verne' ATV approaches
22 January 2008
ESA PR 04-2008. The launch of the first ATV 'Jules Verne' is rapidly approaching. The 20-tonne re-supply and space-tug module will be carried into orbit by a special version of the Ariane 5 launch vehicle called the Ariane 5 Evolution Storable (ES)."
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM1VGEMKBF_index_0.html

Jules Verne goes to space in February 2008 -iTWire
"The Jules Verne will be launched into a 185-mile (300-kilometer) orbit from the ELA-3 launch site at the Guiana Space Center. Its launch date is currently scheduled for February 22, 2008."
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/16104/1066/1/1/

around 2 200 kg of MMH (Monomethylhydrazine) and 3 600 kg MON3 (Mixed Oxides of Nitrogen) propellant which will be used by ATV’s own propulsion system.
Already around 860 kg of nitrogen tetroxide oxidiser (N2O4) and Russian produced UDMH (Unsymmetrical dimehtylhydrazine) have been stored on board ATV.