宇宙アイディアの宝庫「ASTRAX」

先月米国の民間ロケット打ち上げサービス企業「UP Aerospace社」のロケットによって打ち上げられた弊社の社員バッチ・・・その後どうなったのだろうと待っていたところ、日ごろ大変お世話になっているZspace社より「ペイロードが迷子になって回収できない状況が続いてましたが、数日前にペイロードの回収がやっとでき、今週中には日本に届きます」との情報が入りました！！！

おおお、とっても楽しみです！

今回同じフライトに同乗していた他のお客様としては、下記のような企業や団体が参加していました。
フライト品を見ているだけでも、皆、いろいろなことを考えているなぁと感心してしまいます。

このような面白チャレンジ企画を参考にして、日本でも、民間ロケット打ち上げサービスを利用してみたい！というお客様がどんどん増えていくことを期待しています。
（民間ロケット利用の利点は、「早い、うまい、安い」みたいな感じ？）

SL-2 Customers, Launch Partners, and Flight Manifest
(アルファベット順)

Astrata / RocketFoto:
RocketFoto is a startup service that sends personal photographs up with the launch and then returns them back to their customers. RocketFoto is sending up their first payload of photos and other small personal items on this launch.

ASTRAX: （←弊社です！(^o^)）
Limited edition commemorative ASTRAX lapel pins provided by Zspace LLC.

CCAT & NALI:
The Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology (CCAT) and NALI the National Aerospace Leadership Initiative are proud to be collaborating with UP Aerospace as education partners on the LaunchQuest Program, providing middle and high school students the opportunity to send their own research experiments into space. 800 students from teams around the country and the world, including Alaska, Puerto Rico, and the Netherlands, have developed and designed 44 scientific experiments for the SL-2 flight.

Colorado Space Grant and the University of Colorado at Boulder:
Their payload, known as RocketSat, is a proof-of-concept mission. There are several experiments being flown including a GPS receiver and a video camera. If these experiments and the payload itself flies successfully, they pave the way for more routine space flight.

Epsori Space Systems (ESS):
ESS will be flying 6 Tiny Sat containers filled with 21.5 ounces of alfalfa, broccoli, and radish seeds. ESS plans to distribute these seeds with science curriculum to 2500 classrooms this fall, at no cost to the teachers or students. According to Jerry Hilburn, the founder of ESS, "Our plan is to engage students with novel experiments flown into space. When you hold something in your hand that actually has been to space, that makes science exciting!"

Microgravity Enterprises, Inc. (MEI):
MEI is flying a "unique" payload and will provide information after the flight. MEI has signed an agreement with UP Aerospace to purchase 18 flights over the next 4 years.

Realdream Association:
Realdream Association is based in Torino, Italy. Their mission is focused towards the cosmos, opening the frontiers of Space to everyday people and realizing the dream of all children: to travel towards other worlds, to play without the bounds of gravity. Realdream Association's vision is of being able to apply, in the near future, sub-orbital spaceflight technology to the traditional transportation systems (e.g., high speed intercontinental flights), revolutionizing the way businessmen and tourists alike travel around the world. Realdream sent to space two Juventus (Italian soccer team) jerseys and one official flag of the United Federation of Planets.

Space Services, Inc.:
There is such a fascination with people all over the world with space travel, and not many people are able to fulfill this dream in their lifetimes. Space Services provides a memorial space flight service with an affordable way for people to fulfill their life long wish for space travel.

★http://www.upaerospace.com/SL-2-flight-manifest.html

先月から始まった、秘密の宇宙企画「宇宙プロジェクトＸ−１」。

業者さんから届いた仕入れ物を、某業務提携先に納品し、まず第一段階が完了しました。

納品物は、某業務提携先に展示していただき、今後どのように夢を販売していくか、双方で日々アイディアを出し合っていくことになりました。ワクワクワクワク・・・(^o^)

すでに、誰もやったことのないような面白いアイディアが次々と出てきており、話はいつまでも尽きないのですが、これからしばらく熟成期に入ります。

機が来たら、第2段としてスタートする予定です。