Had a very enjoyable presentation to the 29th ISTS last Friday in the International Conference Hall at the Nagoya International C
onference Center.
The session was on the Friday [v-2] on Space Utilization and Security and chaired by a person I very much respect, Prof. Hashimoto, who now is deciding Japan’s LV strategy.
| Session Date | June 7 (Fri) 16:20 – 18:00 |
|---|---|
| Room | International Conference Room |
| Chairpersons | Yasuaki Hashimoto (The National Institute for Defense Studies, Japan) |
| Motoko Uchitomi (JAXA, Japan) |
2013-v-06 ( 16:20-16:40 )
US Space Security Cooperation and Its Relevance to the Asia-Pacific.
Unfortunately Fukushima san could not present, but there were really interesting predictions from Kodama Sensei and two from Taiwan that were very interesting.
According 
to Kodama, it should not be impossible to move from warning to prediction of earthquakes using satellites, which I found interesting, but not as interesting, frankly as the scathing criticism leveled at the IGS program, which is patently seen as Public Enemy by some sections of Japan’s space science community.
to Kodama, it should not be impossible to move from warning to prediction of earthquakes using satellites, which I found interesting, but not as interesting, frankly as the scathing criticism leveled at the IGS program, which is patently seen as Public Enemy by some sections of Japan’s space science community.
If you have spent decades honing and training excellent academic science that is at the global cutting edge and cannot prize a few extra hundred thousand dollars out of government, meanwhile, politically favored companies, groups and powerful institutions and overall inertia and paranoia means you can spend 10 billion dollars on a bunch of satellites that are patently only marginally useful to Japan’s defense, then you might have a point.
But then again, you have to invest long term to get results and the IGS may well prove strategically important; meanwhile why waste money on satellites when Perky the Pig and his friends are obviously more reliable about giving earthquake warnings?
Saying all that, the Presentation raised a few eyebrows and I am very thankful to Aoki Sensei for suggesting I do it.
Japan Space Policy 