Japanese space probe goes into orbit around Venus

[Hamartia Antidote]

 

[xyxmt]

How come people want to go around all planet except Uranus

 

[Aepsilons]

And Behold the Heavens are revealed,

On the process, folks

 

[faithfulguy]

Better that way. We prefer to do it silently.

It's always best to let the action do the talking.

 

[oproh]

The technologically-advanced country of japan is 50 years late in the game.

 

[faithfulguy]

The Soviet sent a probe to Venus 50 years ago. Let me remind you that. This is nothing new. This is not a new territory. Sending a probe is easy. In fact, any country with rocket that send satellite to space can do that. Though, sending and landing a probe on the planet or better yet, a manned mission in space take a different technological know-how territory because of precise navigation and reentry back to earth needs advance re-entry rocket.. That's why nobody cares about sending probe to another planet. It is a one way street. Easy cake. Even a private space company can do that.

It's not true that no body care about sending probe to orbit The netizens of this one particular country already proclaimed themselves as a space superpower for sending a probe to a planet recently. They are definitely not as low keyed as the Japanese.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Well inorder to land on a planet you have to know what the terrain looks like first. So probes will come before landers.

 

[Audio]

Good development. I think it is important for humanity as a whole to keep a constant eye at our neighbourhood even if that does not give economic results just now.

OTOH a quick glance at active surveilance and research programmes is pretty impressive, even more so if we take into account already expired programmes from this millenia.

Like...active programmes only + things i am quite certain have funding

1 at Venus (would be 2, but ESA Venus Express was crashed earlier this year after a decade of flight)

4 at the Moon (2+1 US, 1 Chinese).................1 Chinese rover

3 at Mars (Indian, US, EU)...............................2-3 working US rovers, another orbiter to follow in 1-2 months and hopefully a succesful rover landing in 2018

1 arriving at Jupiter in 2016 and another one launched in ~2020

1 at Saturn (approaching nearly 2 decades of operations) with one defunct lander on one of it's moons

4 asteroid missions (ESA Rosetta, JAXA Hayabusa 2, NASA Dawn mission, NASA/ESA AIDA mission (2 launches/2 vehicles))

1+2 going to the outer fringes of Solar system (NASA New Horizons + 2 Voyagers)

 

[mike2000 is back]

I think this is quite pertinent to the topic of galactic exploration by JAXA and the raw, unlimited power from space. The new horizon is in the Heavens. JAXA, like NASA, will pave the way.


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JAXA Looks to Space for Energy Production


SSPS Ground Station (JAXA)



SNA (Tsukuba) – The loss of public faith in nuclear energy since the March 11, 2011, triple disaster has once again put the Japanese nation on the hunt for new solutions to its vast energy needs. Many voices have called for the dramatic expansion of renewable energy systems such as solar, wind, and hydro as the medium- to long-term answer to reduce the contemporary dependency on nuclear, as well as on CO2-producing forms of energy like oil and gas.

Here at the Tsukuba Space Center of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), they are working on a project that one can easily imagine to be a late 21st century or early 22nd century answer to human energy needs – it is a Space Solar Power System, or SSPS.

The origins of the SSPS concept go back to 1968 and the United States. The first such idea was proposed by the NASA-affiliated scientist and aerospace engineer Dr. Peter Glaser, and during the 1970s some preliminary work was done. However, shortly after Ronald Reagan was elected US President in 1980, NASA’s development of an SSPS was defunded as “a high-risk venture” and an unnecessary government expense.

Later, JAXA picked up the threads and today Japan is the world leader in developing this technology.

Obviously, putting a solar power station up in space is a much more costly proposition than building a more conventional mega-solar plant on the ground, but, as JAXA Associate Senior Engineer Tatsuhito Fujita tells the SNA, there are key advantages as well: “The biggest merit of the SSPS is that in space, as opposed to on land, it can continue to operate even during the nighttime hours. So even when it is dark across the land, it can gather the solar energy and beam it down to earth. Also, solar power on land is at the mercy of weather conditions, like clouds and rain. It can’t produce much energy under bad weather conditions. When the SSPS beams down its energy, cloud cover has no effect, so weather is not a factor. Overall, this means the SSPS can generate a lot more energy. So while it certainly costs more money to send a solar power station into space as opposed to building one on land, once it is up there and producing energy, it is much more efficient, powerful, and stable. That’s its great merit.”

One of the key challenges, of course, is transmitting the solar energy collected in space to businesses and homes down on earth. From the beginning of the SSPS concept, two major possibilities have been explored; the first is through microwaves and the second through lasers. Obviously, these microwaves or beams cannot be so intense as to threaten birds or airplanes that happen to cross their paths, but apparently the technology is already more or less in place that would allow the construction of special energy-collection stations on earth to safely gather the energy sent down from the solar power satellites.

Japan is now moving from the basic study phases of the SSPS to demonstration tests, and in the 2020s, probably in partnership with other countries, is likely to launch a serious effort to build and to put such a system into operation. JAXA’s current goal is to have the first SSPS up and running sometime in the 2030s and generating energy equivalent to about one nuclear power plant.

From that point, if the technology is found to meet the promise that its designers expect of it, not even the sky will be the limit.




Not only that, my friend, we have launched a space exploratory probe to a meteor cluster , successcully collected data , and retrieved data for JAXA's analysis. We have already launched a 2nd strike to do more specific analysis on a new meteor cluster through Hayabusa 2.

THAT is JAPANESE ENGINEERING. Pin Point Precision. Even in Space, Not many can boast that. But we Japanese can.

@mike2000 is back , think about it this way, if we can launch an inter-galactic strike with pin point accuracy at a meteor cluster with 100% precision. Imagine the potential for Japanese intercontinental ballistics, well, if we so decided to do it. LOL. The latter is just so ...terra...

I suppose with the blessings of the Great Omnipotent and Divine Sun Goddess the Omikami Amaterasu, Japan can accomplish anything.

I deign to say...Divine Right...

Well, Japan is still among the top 10 most developed nations on planet earth and also among the top 10 most productive nation(per inhabitant) on earth. So no surprise there.

 

[Imtiaz_Sarwar]

• Congratulations to Japan for a successful mission to Venus. Today it looks like a dream but one day we will follow you in exploring space.

 

[xunzi]

It's not true that no body care about sending probe to orbit The netizens of this one particular country already proclaimed themselves as a space superpower for sending a probe to a planet recently. They are definitely not as low keyed as the Japanese.

I'm speaking of the media. There is nothing spectacular about sending a probe, especially to Venus in which there is NO POSSIBILITY of life or human settlement because it is close to the Sun. Unlike Mars where human settlement is possible. The space superpower India which put a probe to Mars got a lot of media hype, not because it was a human breakthrough. It is because they put a probe on the cheap. But then again, cheap is relative to the facts the Indian probe is low-quality, light weight probe which doesn't offer a lot of useful information on Mars. Now, we are going to try to land a rover on Mars in 2020. If it is successful, we will be the 2nd country to have done this technological human breakthrough after the US did it in the early 2000s.

 

[mike2000 is back]

they have more surviving instinct than cockroach lol (which is considered best survivor of extinction)

.....you are funny dude.

 

[gslv mk3]

ere is nothing spectacular about sending a probe, especially to Venus in which there is NO POSSIBILITY of life or human settlement because it is close to the Sun. Unlike Mars where human settlement is possible. The space superpower India which put a probe to Mars got a lot of media hype, not because it was a human breakthrough. It is because they put a probe on the cheap. But then again, cheap is relative to the facts the Indian probe is low-quality, light weight probe which doesn't offer a lot of useful information on Mars.

You're a typical delusional troll

 

[somsak]

congratulation Japan. Can you give more info about launch vehicle?

 

[Audio]

If it is successful, we will be the 2nd country to have done this technological human breakthrough after the US did it in the early 2000s.

3rd actually...