Folgendes Thema wird von Herrn Prof. Shinichi Kimura von der Tokyo University of Science, an der nächsten Veranstaltung präsentiert:
From Space Debris Mitigation to Future Space Living
Space technologies tend to be extremely expensive, mainly because they must meet special high-level technical requirements and the market is extremely limited. Consequently, if it is necessary to realize a wide variety of technologies—including some that have not been envisaged in previous space development projects (e.g., space habitation)—an enormous number of technical issues will need to be solved. If consideration is given mainly to clothing, food, and housing technologies that envisage habitation, many of the technologies intended for terrestrial application that have been studied to date can be expected to prove highly promising from the perspective of space habitation, as well. Meanwhile, our research group is engaged in the development of an image-guided navigation system designed to realize space debris removal using commercial-off-the-shelf devices, so that they can be utilized in a variety of missions such as IKAROS, KITE, and Hayabusa-2. In light of this, we started research center for space system innovation (SSI) to link technologies being studied for terrestrial application with their potential utilization in space in order to realize space-terrestrial dual development. In this presentation, our trial on space-terrestrial dual development and a part of the achievements of our research activities.