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3.23. Target launch date set for second Space Shuttle mission
an FRG X-ray satellite (Rosat) to be launched from the Space Shuttle in 1986, although no specific launch date has been reserved. Private and scientific organiations in Germany have also reserved a total of 28 small self-contained payloads for eventual flight on the Space Shuttle on a space-available basis. 3.23. TARGET LAUNCH DATE SET FOR SECOND SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION’“’
Following an assessment of modifications and test requirements for the second flight of the Space Shuttle, STS-2, a target launch date has been set for 30 September 1981. NASA officials emphasize, however, that this date is success oriented and it involves the first time that the orbiter Columbia will be “turned around” for a successive flight. Unforeseen problems could occur which would impact the work schedule. The Columbia arrived back at the Kennedy Space Center, Fla, on 28 April 1981, following a highly successful two-day mission completed on 14April.
3.24. NEW INSTITUTEOF SPACE AND ASTRONAUTICAL SCIENCE IN TOKYO
Report from Prof. K. Hirao, National Representative of Japan in COSPAR The Institute of Space and Aeronautical Science, which had been affiliated to the University of Tokyo to carry out the space science programmes in Japan since 19&l, has been abolished and the re-organized new institute, The Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, was established on 14 April 1981. The new ISAS is, like the old ISAS, open to all the scientists in Japan who are interested in participating in the programmes of the Institute. It is attached directly to the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture as one of the national research institutes for sciences, but it is operated in a similar manner to those of the institutes affiliated to the national universities. Therefore all the academic staffs at the Institute have the title of either professor or associate professor. They also accommodate the graduate students who belong to the national universities in Japan. The new ISAS has nine Research Divisions for Space Astrophysics, Space Plasma, Planetary Science, Basic Space Science, Space Systems Engineering, Space Transportation, Space Propulsion, Spacecraft Engineering and Space Applications. The number of professors and associate professors that can be accommodated in these research divisions is 70 including two posts specially reserved for foreign visiting professors. The Institute is attached to three off-campus field centres and an incampus facility: Kagoshima Space Centre for launching the satellites and sounding rockets, Sanriku Balloon Centre for ballooning, Noshiro Testing Centre for static firing tests of propulsion systems and space Data Analysis Centre. It has also two (WNASA
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News Release 81-65 of 15 May 1981.
Following an assessment of modifications and test requirements for the second flight of the Space Shuttle, STS-2, a target launch date has been set for 30 September 1981. NASA officials emphasize, however, that this date is success oriented and it involves the first time that the orbiter Columbia will be “turned around” for a successive flight. Unforeseen problems could occur which would impact the work schedule. The Columbia arrived back at the Kennedy Space Center, Fla, on 28 April 1981, following a highly successful two-day mission completed on 14April.
3.24. NEW INSTITUTEOF SPACE AND ASTRONAUTICAL SCIENCE IN TOKYO
Report from Prof. K. Hirao, National Representative of Japan in COSPAR The Institute of Space and Aeronautical Science, which had been affiliated to the University of Tokyo to carry out the space science programmes in Japan since 19&l, has been abolished and the re-organized new institute, The Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, was established on 14 April 1981. The new ISAS is, like the old ISAS, open to all the scientists in Japan who are interested in participating in the programmes of the Institute. It is attached directly to the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture as one of the national research institutes for sciences, but it is operated in a similar manner to those of the institutes affiliated to the national universities. Therefore all the academic staffs at the Institute have the title of either professor or associate professor. They also accommodate the graduate students who belong to the national universities in Japan. The new ISAS has nine Research Divisions for Space Astrophysics, Space Plasma, Planetary Science, Basic Space Science, Space Systems Engineering, Space Transportation, Space Propulsion, Spacecraft Engineering and Space Applications. The number of professors and associate professors that can be accommodated in these research divisions is 70 including two posts specially reserved for foreign visiting professors. The Institute is attached to three off-campus field centres and an incampus facility: Kagoshima Space Centre for launching the satellites and sounding rockets, Sanriku Balloon Centre for ballooning, Noshiro Testing Centre for static firing tests of propulsion systems and space Data Analysis Centre. It has also two (WNASA
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News Release 81-65 of 15 May 1981.