CASH 2021: commercial access and space habitation

Issues about commercialization of space have been a growing concern in the past decade for the space community. This paper focuses on the work from a team of 51 students attending the Summer Session Program of the International Space University in Bremen, Germany. CASH 2021 (Commercial Access and Space Habitation) documents a plan that identifies commercial opportunities for space utilization that will extend human presence in space, and will chart the way forward for the next 20 years. The group selected four commercial sectors that show the most promise for the future: tourism, entertainment, space system service, assembly and debris removal, and research and development/production. The content of this document presents the results of their research. Historical activities in each of the commercial sectors are reviewed along with the current market situation. To provide a coherent background for future commercialization possibilities a scenario has been developed. This scenario includes a postulated upon ideal future and includes social, political and economic factors that may affect the space industry over the timeline of the study. The study also presents a roadmap, within the limited optimistic scenario developed, for the successful commercialization of space leading to future human presence in space. A broad range of commercially viable opportunities, not only within the current limits of the International Space Station, but also among the many new developments that are expected by 2021 are discussed.     

用于地表和亚地表探测的多频极化合成孔径雷达

本文介绍了用于地表和亚地表观测的机载多频极化SAR“IMARC”。改进的SAR系统包括了4个频段（X、L、P和VHF），相应的波长分别为4cm、23cm、68cm和254cm。这种SAR能以不同线性的极化（VV、HH、VH和HV）从飞机的左右两侧进行测量。空间分辨率在X波段为1．5～3m，L波段为4～6m，P波段为6～8m和VHF波段为8～16m。该系统采集并处理雷达数据以获得实时图像。这种SAR系统将用于测定土壤水文表面，调查植被、雪、冰层和冻土的特征，对人造目标和自然目标以及各种自然界异常现象进行定位亚地表探测。     

有源相控阵（AESA）技术在美国机载雷达中的应用及发展

介绍美国已经或准备采用AESA技术的军用飞机雷达，简要介绍AESA雷达给军用飞机带来的好处。本文还涉及雷达和通用数据链（R-CDL）系统、AESA雷达的电子干扰能力与破坏作用潜力、在未来AESA雷达中实现LPI（包括采用数字波束形成技术）以及共形阵、敏感蒙皮的应用等问题。     

低成本航天任务保障设想

本文提出了一种新的端－端地面系统的结构，目的是减少总的航天任务任务地面支持费用。喷气推进实验室（ＪＰＬ）现用地面系统的操作、维护、部署、再生产和文件资料费用很大。在ＮＡＳＡ预算被削减这样一种气氛下，本文提出的结构由于能大幅度降低上述各项费用，从而更有现实意义。目前，地面支持功能（即接收机、跟踪、测距、遥测、遥控、监视和控制）分布在不同机柜中的几个分系统中。利用现有的多芯片模块（ＭＣＭ）封装技术，这     

A viable microbial community in a subglacial volcanic crater lake, Iceland

We describe a viable microbial community in a subglacial lake within the Grímsv?tn volcanic caldera, Iceland. We used a hot water drill to penetrate the 300-m ice shelf and retrieved lake water and volcanic tephra sediments. We also acquired samples of borehole water before and after penetration to the lake, overlying glacial ice and snow, and water from a nearby subaerial geothermal lake for comparative analyses. Lake water is at the freezing point and fresh (total dissolved solids = 260 mg L(-1)). Detectable numbers of cells were found in samples of the lake water column and tephra sediments: 2 x 10(4) ml(-1) and 4 x 10(7) g(-1), respectively. Plate counts document abundant cold-adapted cultivable organisms in the lake water, but not in the borehole (before penetration) or glacial ice. Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) of 16S rRNA gene fragments amplified from genomic DNA extracted from Grímsv?tn samples indicates that the lake community is distinct from the assemblages of organisms in borehole water (before penetration) and the overlying ice and snow. Sequencing of selected DGGE bands revealed that many sequences are highly similar to known psychrophilic organisms or cloned DNA from other cold environments. Significant uptake of 14C-labeled bicarbonate occurred in dark, low-temperature incubations of lake water samples, indicating the presence of autotrophs. Acetylene reduction assays under similar incubation conditions showed no significant nitrogen fixation potential by lake water samples. This may be a consequence of the inhibition of diazotrophy by nitrogen in the lake.     

World Space Congress: a vision quest

The World Space Congress (WSC) in October, 2002, brought together luminaries, aerospace engineers, students, and scientists to discuss strategies for reviving the world's space agency. WSC lectures and plenary sessions focused on future research in space. Among topics discussed are the use of the Hubble Space Telescope to scan for habitable planets and obtain data about the beginning of the universe, new weather satellites, planetary protection from comets or asteroids, exploration and establishment of colonies on the Moon and Mars, medical advances, the role of space exploration in the world economy.     

UV photochemistry of DNA in vitro and in Bacillus subtilis spores at earth-ambient and low atmospheric pressure: implications for spore survival on other planets or moons in the solar system

Two major parameters influencing the survival of Bacillus subtilis spores in space and on bodies within the Solar System are UV radiation and vacuum, both of which induce inactivating damage to DNA. To date, however, spore survival and DNA photochemistry have been explored only at the extremes of Earth-normal atmospheric pressure (101.3 kPa) and at simulated space vacuum (10(-3)-10(-6) Pa). In this study, wild-type spores, mutant spores lacking alpha/beta-type small, acid-soluble spore proteins (SASP), naked DNA, and complexes between SASP SspC and DNA were exposed simultaneously to UV (254 nm) at intermediate pressure (1-2 Pa), and the UV photoproducts cis,syn-thymine-thymine cyclobutane dimer (c,sTT), trans,syn-thymine-thymine cyclobutane dimer (t,sTT), and "spore photoproduct" (SP) were quantified. At 101.3 kPa, UV-treated wild-type spores accumulated only SP, but spores treated with UV radiation at 1-2 Pa exhibited a spectrum of DNA damage similar to that of spores treated at 10(-6) Pa, with accumulation of SP, c,sTT, and t,sTT. The presence or absence of alpha/beta-type SASP in spores was partly responsible for the shift observed between levels of SP and c,sTT, but not t,sTT. The changes observed in spore DNA photochemistry at 1-2 Pa in vivo were not reproduced by irradiation of naked DNA or SspC:DNA complexes in vitro, suggesting that factors other than SASP are involved in spore DNA photochemistry at low pressure.     

鸭翼位置对前掠翼气动特性的影响

本文依据在低速风洞所取得的测力、油流观察及旋涡测量结果,研究了前掠翼鸭式布局的鸭翼位置对气动性能的影响机理。研究表明,鸭翼位置对气动性能的影响是极为显著的。前掠翼鸭式布局大迎角性能的提高取决于鸭、主翼前缘涡的相对位置及其相互控制,也就是它们间的相互干扰。文中根据前掠及后掠鸭翼与主翼组合的实验结果,提出了采用鸭式布局时鸭、主翼应具有的平面形状及它们的相对位置。文中还对双前掠翼布局提出了一些看法。     

磁层氧离子向磁鞘泄漏的机制和效应

１９９７年 １月 １０日磁暴期间， Ｇｅｏｔａｉｌ卫星在向阳侧的磁鞘中观测到了磁层氧离子突增事件．这些氧离子的出现和磁鞘中存在很强的南向行星际磁场有关．事件期间向阳面发生了准静态的磁重联，氧离子流存在由北向南的速度分量．通量突增过程具有逆向和正向能量色散现象，磁层内部只有氧离子有可能被梯度漂移输送到重联区，所以只有氧离子在磁鞘中持续地被观测到．估计氧离子的逃逸速率为 ０．６１× １０２３／ｓ，大约为环电流氧离子输入率的 ３３％．大量的环电流氧离子由磁层跑到了磁鞘，导致环电流指数 ＡＳＹ－Ｈ呈现明显的非对称性．