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Nordic News
Topic Started: Sep 23 2016, 12:41 AM (14 Views)
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JNSP ANNOUNCE TIMETABLE FOR PROJECTS

Over the last 15 years the Joint Nordic Space Programme has seen ever wider co-operation between the national government and private enterprise in the field of space exploration. Yesterday Anne Bager, the Minister of Science and Technology, announced that 2016 shall, "be the most exciting year yet for the JNSP. This year several projects that have long been in the planning shall come to fruition and our teams are looking forward to sharing their findings and successes with the world."

To mark the announcement the first live launch of the new Norseman rocket was carried out from the JNSP sea platform off the coast of Osberg. The rocket was carrying the new Watchman II satellite which will take up position over the Union and will be used to monitor a wide variety of data such as deforestation, help identify mineral deposits and fishing patterns. The satellite has been paid for with funds from the government, the Woodland Trust, several mining companies and Uppsala Institute of Environmental Studies. The launch was a complete success and data should begin being used in the coming weeks.[/align]

Minister Bager added, "This type of project was a rather simple one for our teams compared to what we have in store."

Dr.Thern, leader of the JNSP then went on to outline the major projects for the year stating, "We have a number of routine satellite launches lined up but we have four major projects we're rather excited about" The details of these are given below.

Project Icarus (Expected mid October) Two nearly identical satellites will be launched into orbits around the Sun that cause them to respectively pull farther ahead of and fall gradually behind the Earth. This enables stereoscopic imaging of the Sun and solar phenomena, such as coronal mass ejections.

Sun Dragon (expected early November) A probe will be launched containing experimental solar sail technology. Once put into the correct orbit solar sails shall be unfurled and tested using a variety of onboard equipment. The probe will then be (if successful) put into a trajectory for an orbit of Venus before heading back towards Earth and then out into the solar system. It is likely to be placed into hibernation and woken periodically once past Earth.

Longboat 1 (expected early December) an unmanned mission to test the ability of putting a human into orbit using reusable vehicles and then land on the Moon. The launch will also put into orbit a small self contained module which will form part of the later Spacehouse project which will look at building a miniature space station for short term experiments.

Longboat 2 (expected late December) should Longboat 1 be successful then the full version shall be launched including a crew. The aim will be to land on the moon to collect samples before retuning to Earth.
Edited by Nord, Sep 23 2016, 01:25 AM.
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