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[mato]

Sorry.Please move the original thread.

What's Up With Hayabusa? (fka Muses-c)

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Here's a question! What is a role of this camera standing at the center of the command room?
http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/home/nucleus/media...26-DSC06329.JPG

[RNeuhaus]

http://jaxa.tv/

This is an answer! This camera is to take a video image of the whiteboard at the command room. On these whiteboards, the newest operational information are written. This camera monitors them, and video can be seen at the operation room #2.

Rodolfo

[ElkGroveDan]

This is an answer! This camera is to take a video image of the whiteboard at the command room. On these whiteboards, the newest operational information are written. This camera monitors them, and video can be seen at the operation room #2.

I guess that procedure works, but I find it amazing that the Japansese who have been experts in everything electronic don't use some kind of scrolling electronic display to share data with the other room.

I wonder if it is hand written because of the mathematical calculations. I myself have never been able to perform calculus from a keyboard.

[volcanopele]

I guess that procedure works, but I find it amazing that the Japansese who have been experts in everything electronic don't use some kind of scrolling electronic display to share data with the other room. 

I wonder if it is hand written because of the mathematical calculations.  I myself have never been able to perform calculus from a keyboard.

Considering that I have been in workshops where people have emailed the person sitting next to them, I am a little surprised.

[ljk4-1]

Japan puts space program back on track

12:45 2006-01-19

First, a technical glitch forced the launch date to be set back. Then a thunderstorm came in and hit this remote island in southern Japan with buckets of rain and howling winds. Fighting to get back on schedule after a fiery failure two years ago and running well behind China is Asia's budding space race, Japan's space agency is praying for sunshine and a little bit of luck.

"Weather is our main problem right now, but you have to always keep the other possible problems in mind," Tatsuo Oshima, a spokesman for Japan's space agency, known as JAXA, said Thursday as the rocket remained locked up safe in its hangar. Japan's latest H-2A rocket the black, orange and white launch vehicle that is the centerpiece of this country's space program is intended to put the four-ton Advanced Land Observation Satellite into orbit.

The satellite, which has three remote sensing instruments, will provide topographic data for use in the production of more detailed maps. But getting this launch out of the way has a deeper significance to Tokyo because it will clear the pad on this tiny, lush island for a much more high-profile mission the launching of two spy satellites by March 2007 to monitor North Korea and other trouble spots.

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Following Beijing's success, Japan made an abrupt policy turnabout, saying that it was reconsidering its focus on unmanned missions and announcing plans to send its first astronauts into space and set up a base on the moon by 2025.

Japan's space agency announced last month it will delay until 2010 the return of a star-crossed probe sent to collect samples from an asteroid because a thruster problem put the vehicle into an unexpected spin, reports the AP.

http://newsfromrussia.com/world/2006/01/19/71374.html