Development of a superconducting submillimeter-wave limb emission sounder (SMILES) on the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) of the International Space Station (ISS)

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naomi Ikeda ◽  
Junji Inatani ◽  
Yukiei Iida ◽  
Harunobu Masuko ◽  
Takeshi Manabe ◽  
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2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 1025-1030 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masaki Shirakawa ◽  
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Fumiaki Tanigaki ◽  
Takashi Yamazaki ◽  

The International Space Station (ISS) is a completely closed environment that offers a long-term microgravity environment. It is a unique environment where microbes can fly and attach themselves to devices or humans, especially the exposed parts of the body and head. The ongoing monitoring and analysis of microbes and their movement inside the Japanese Experiment Module (named “Kibo”) of the ISS are intended to study the effects of microbes on humans and prevent health hazards caused by microbes during a long-term space mission. This paper describes the current status and future plan of Japanese microbiological experiments to monitor microbial dynamics in Kibo. It also describes the future prospective and prioritized microbiological research areas based on the “Kibo utilization scenario towards 2020 in the field of life science.” Given the microbial research in space being actively conducted by the USA, NASA and international activities are also reported.


2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 1035-1039 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomoaki Ichijo ◽  
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Nobuyasu Yamaguchi ◽  
Masao Nasu

Since 2009, we have been continuously performing bacterial monitoring in Kibo, the Japanese Experiment Module of the International Space Station (ISS), in cooperation with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The objective of this research is to monitor microbes and analyze their dynamics in Kibo from environmental microbiological viewpoints. In this review, we summarize our research related to bacterial monitoring in Kibo.


2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroshi Tomida ◽  
Masaru Matsuoka ◽  
Ken'ichi Torii ◽  
Shiro Ueno ◽  
Mutsumi Sugizaki ◽  
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2013 ◽  
Vol 51 (7) ◽  
pp. 3791-3802 ◽  
Author(s):  
Satoshi Ochiai ◽  
Ken-ichi Kikuchi ◽  
Toshiyuki Nishibori ◽  
Takeshi Manabe ◽  
Hiroyuki Ozeki ◽  
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