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「探査機はやぶささん07」
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★情報解禁。
「はやぶさ迎え酒」 5月末頃発売→http://img.ly/1ciY
JAXAの方と細々やりとりして、画像使用許可をいただきました。
「本家はやぶさ版」「はやぶささん版」の2本1組。
販売本数に応じてJAXAにロイヤリティをお支払いする形となります。
★お酒も本格。福千歳 → http://www.fukuchitose.com/
(本格過ぎるので、2本組5000円くらいとなる予定)
だって、どうせならいい酒で出迎えたいですから。
★快く使用認可をいただいたJAXA、およびこんなタイトなスケジュールにGOを出していただいた福千歳、両者に感謝を。
★近いうちにサイト出来ます。
Minerva takes everything literally.
The scale of NASA's budget is about 10 times that of JAXA's.
In the recording industry, that's the difference between major record labels and indie labels. In terms of time and money spent on research, there is just no matching NASA.
Furthermore, in this world (of space exploration), because cooperation is crucial, the research, is in a way, open for all to see. (It is not like development research in the private sector, where companies with pioneering research can protect it with patents.)
If there is a research topic which seems profitable or interesting, the massively funded NASA can make up any lost ground and move to the forefront with incredible speed.
As such, JAXA research tends to be constrained to rather ambitious, low-budget, and short-term projects.
Please imagine it for yourself.
For example: In a cooking contest, you have to compete with an opponent given 100 dollars while you are given 10 dollars.
Your opponent is also a premier chef, and you are limited to buying ingredients from the same marketplace.
It's stiff competition.
The phenomenon of large amounts of electromagnetic waves and matter being released due to an explosion near the sun's black spots.
Under the XMCBA ranking system, the third largest solar flare since the ranking system's inception (in 1976) occurred on October 28, 2003 with a strength of X17.2.
The effects of that solar flare caused troubles such as a decrease in energy output from the Hayabusa-san's solar cell and slight damage in its solid state memory, which can lead to mistakes in data interpretation.
Aside from Hayabusa-san, the solar flare had other massive effects, such as the momentary shutdown of the DRTS (Data Relay Test Satellite) Kodama, worldwide communications interference, and the appearance of an aurora in Hokkaido.
On November 4th, 2003, the largest observed solar flare occurred with a strength of X28. Because that flare was not directed towards Earth, there was little damage. However, had it been facing the Earth, it is presumed there would have been quite a lot of damage.
In order to clarify, all depictions and onomatopoeia of solar flare damage including impacts and smoke are dramatizations created for this manga.