Achievements of the “Space Environment and Kibo Utilization Workshop (SEKUW)”
Last Updated: May 16, 2016
Space Environment and Kibo Utilization Workshop
(SEKUW)
National Planetarium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
April 18-19 2016
The Space Environment and Kibo Utilization Workshop (SEKUW) was successfully convened at the National Planetarium, National Space Agency (ANGKASA), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from April 18 to 19, 2016. Approximately 50 participants from Malaysia, Singapore and Japan attended the SEKUW from 15 organizations such as research institutions, ministries, agencies and space related corporations. Valuable presentations for the space environment and the Kibo utilization were provided from life sciences, agriculture, material sciences and space technology fields. During the SEKUW, researchers who have an idea of Kibo utilization had a meeting with JAXA specialists to get suggestions to implement their ideas, especially for the ExHAM (Exposed Experiment Handrail Attachment Mechanism) and the J-SSOD (JEM Small Satellite Orbital Deployer) utilization.
The workshop concluded that all participants recognized the importance of information exchange in the Kibo-ABC /SEUWG /APRSAF community on the space environment and the Kibo utilization, the ideas and proposals regarding the Kibo utilization have to be discussed more intensively. Feasibility study of the proposals will start soon and status of the feasibility study will be reported at APRSAF-23 in Manila, the Philippines.
It has been known that the workshop for space environment and Kibo utilization for Asia is a precious opportunity as a first step to achieve your ideas of Kibo utilization. We look forward to continuation of the workshop in the future.
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