• 천문학회보
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.47.3-47.3
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• 2018

The Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) plans to develop a coronagraph in collaboration with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), to be installed on the International Space Station (ISS). It uses multiple filters to obtain simultaneous measurements of electron density, temperature, and velocity within a single instrument. The primary science goal is to understand the physical conditions in the solar wind acceleration region, and the secondary goal is to enable and validate the next generation of space weather science models. The planned launch in 2022 provides great potential for synergy with other solar space missions such as Solar Orbiter and Parker Solar Probe.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.419-425
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• 2015

In this study, a new idea for developing a space scale for measuring mass in a microgravity environment was proposed by using the inertial force properties of an object to measure its mass. The space scale detected the momentum change of the specimen and reference masses by using a load-cell sensor as the force transducer based on Newton's laws of motion. In addition, the space scale calculated the specimen mass by comparing the inertial forces of the specimen and reference masses in the same acceleration field. By using this concept, a space scale with a capacity of 3 kg based on the law of momentum conservation was implemented and demonstrated under microgravity conditions onboard International Space Station (ISS) with an accuracy of ${\pm}1g$. By the performance analysis on the space scale, it was verified that an instrument with a compact size could be implemented and be quickly measured with a reasonable accuracy under microgravity conditions.

• 천문학회보
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• 제42권2호
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• pp.66.3-66.3
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• 2017

Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) is developing a coronagraph in collaboration with National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) which will be installed on the International Space Station (ISS). The coronagraph can measure speed and temperature by using four filters approximately 400 nm and polarization filter in three different angles, differently with older coronagraphs. For the successful mission, it has development and experiment progress in three phases; total solar eclipse experiment in 2017, balloon experiment in 2019, and the ISS installation in 2021. As a first experiment, we developed a coronagraph without an occulter named with Diagnostic Coronagraph Experiment (DICE) for experiment for filter system and imaging sensor. We designed optics with a field of view from 2.5 to 15 solar radii. It has four filters approximately 400 nm and polarizer to measure speed and velocity of the solar corona. For the selection of filter or polarization angle, it has two mechanism parts; filter wheel assembly and a polarizer wheel assembly. Especially we used Core Flight System (CFS) platform which was developed by NASA, when we develop the coronagraph operation software. It provides us stability, reusability, and compatibility.

• 천문학회보
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• 제42권2호
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• pp.66.2-66.2
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• 2017

The Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute plans to develop a coronagraph in collaboration with National Aeronautics and Space Administrative (NASA) and install it on the International Space Station (ISS). The coronagraph is an externally occulted one stage coronagraph with a field of view from 2.5 to 15 solar radii. The observation wavelength is approximately 400 nm where strong Fraunhofer absorption lines from the photosphere are scattered by coronal electrons. Photometric filter observation around this band enables the estimation of 2D electron temperature and electron velocity distribution in the corona. Together with the high time cadence (< 12 min) of corona images to determine the geometric and kinematic parameters of coronal mass ejections, the coronagraph will yield the spatial distribution of electron density by measuring the polarized brightness. For the purpose of technical demonstration, we intend to observe the total solar eclipse in 2017 August for the filter system and to perform a stratospheric balloon experiment in 2019 for the engineering model of the coronagraph. The coronagraph is planned to be installed on the ISS in 2021 for addressing a number of questions (e.g. coronal heating and solar wind acceleration) that are both fundamental and practically important in the physics of the solar corona and of the heliosphere.

• 과학기술학연구
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.89-127
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• 2009

국민공모를 통해 한국최초우주인으로 선정된 이소연은 2008년 4월 러시아 소유즈 우주선을 타고 국제우주정거장(ISS)를 방문해 18가지 과학실험을 마치고 무사히 귀환했다. 유인우주기술 습득과 과학대중화라는 두 가지 목표를 갖고 있었던 한국최초우주인배출사업은 국민의 뜨거운 관심에도 불구하고, 사업기간 동안 줄곧 정당성에 대한 비판에 시달렸다. 대중은 남의 나라 우주선을 비용을 지불하고 타기 때문에 이소연을 '우주인'이 아니라 '우주관광객'이라고 비판했고, 정부는 이소연이 ISS에서 18가지 실험을 한다는 점을 강조하며 이에 반박했다. 정말 우주실험이 이소연을 우주인으로 만들었는가? 본 논문에서는 행위자연결망이론(ANT)에 기초한 '네트워크 분석'을 통해 한국최초우주인배출사업의 수행과정에서 나타난 '실험'의 레토릭을 분석하곡 대중의 과학이해(PUS) 관점에서 이러한 전략이 왜 실패로 끝났는지 분석한다.

• 천문학회보
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• 제46권2호
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• pp.78.3-79
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• 2021

Coronal Diagnostic Experiment (CODEX) is a diagnostic coronagraph developed by the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute and the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) to be deployed in 2023 on the International Space Station (ISS). It is designed to obtain simultaneous measurements of electron density, temperature, and velocity in the 2.5 - 10 solar radius range using multiple filters. The filters are mounted in two filter wheel assemblies (FWAs), which have five filter positions each. One position of each FWA is occupied by windows, and remaining eight positions are occupied by three bandpass filters for temperature, two bandpass filters for velocity, one Ca II H filter for F-corona, one broadband filter for fast imaging and density, and one neutral density (ND) filter for direct Sun viewing and safety.

• Journal of Photoscience
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.37-40
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• 2002

Astronauts are constantly exposed to space radiation at a low-dose rate during long-tenn stays in space. Therefore, it is important to determine correctly the biological effects of space radiation on human health. Space radiations contain various kinds of different energy particles, especially high linear energy transfer (LET) particles. Therefore, we have to study the relative biological effectiveness (RBE) of space radiation under microgravity environment which may change RBE from a stress for cells. Furthermore, the research about space radiation might give us useful information about birth and evolution of life on the earth. We also can realize the importance of preventing the ozone layer from depletion by use of exposure equipment to sunlight at International Space Station (ISS).

• Animal cells and systems
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.195-200
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• 2000

In this article I discuss the main results of our research in space biology from the simple early investigations with human Iymphocytes in the early eighties until the projects in tissue engineering of the next decade on the international space station ISS. The discovery that T Iymphocyte activation is nearly totally depressed in vitro in 0g conditions showed that mammalian single cells are sensitive to the gravitational environment. Such finding had important implications in basic research, medicine and biotechnology. Low gravity can be used as a tool to investigate complicated and still obscure biological process from a new perspective not available to earth-bound laboratories. Low gravity may also favor certain bioprocesses involving the growth of tissues and thus lead to commercial and medical applications. However, shortage of crew time and of other resources, lack of sophisticated instrumentation, safety constraints pose serious limits to biological endeavors in space laboratories.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제38권10호
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• pp.1038-1048
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• 2010

소유즈 우주선의 국제우주정거장(ISS) 여행 및 아폴로 우주선의 달 탐사 여행 시 우주인이 받는 방사선 피폭량을 계산하였다. 우주여행 시나리오에 따라 고도, 탑승 및 체류시간, 우주선과 우주복의 재질 및 두께 등을 고려하였다. 계산결과 우주선체와 우주복의 두께가 증가함에 따라 피폭량이 급격하게 감소하였다. 저궤도환경에서 소유즈 우주선의 국제우주정거장 여행 시 최적으로 줄이기 위한 우주선의 두께는 3 cm였다. 선외우주복에 대한 우주인의 피폭치를 계산한 결과, Mylar 재질은 4 cm 이상, Demron 재질은 5 cm 이상에서 피폭량이 평탄해졌다. 알루미늄이 코팅된 Mylar 재질이 고원자번호로 구성된 Demron 재질보다 차폐성능이 우수하였다. 국제우주정거장 여행 시 방사선 총 피폭량은 $4.2\times10^{-6}$ Sv이며, 달 탐사에서 우주인의 방사선 총 피폭량은 $4.3\times10^{-5}$ Sv였다. 한편 아폴로 우주선을 탑승한 우주인의 피폭량이 달 근처에서 높았는데 그 이유는 우주방사선이 달표면의 입자와 충돌하여 2차 중성자와 양성자가 방출되어 달 표면에 방사능이 많기 때문이다. 본 연구의 계산절차와 결과는 우주선과 우주복의 차폐해석에 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

• Genomics & Informatics
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.249-255
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• 2012

In this study, fosmid cloning strategies were used to assess the microbial populations in water from the International Space Station (ISS) drinking water system (henceforth referred to as Prebiocide and Tank A water samples). The goals of this study were: to compare the sensitivity of the fosmid cloning strategy with that of traditional culture-based and 16S rRNA-based approaches and to detect the widest possible spectrum of microbial populations during the water purification process. Initially, microbes could not be cultivated, and conventional PCR failed to amplify 16S rDNA fragments from these low biomass samples. Therefore, randomly primed rolling-circle amplification was used to amplify any DNA that might be present in the samples, followed by size selection by using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. The amplified high-molecular- weight DNA from both samples was cloned into fosmid vectors. Several hundred clones were randomly selected for sequencing, followed by Blastn/Blastx searches. Sequences encoding specific genes from Burkholderia, a species abundant in the soil and groundwater, were found in both samples. Bradyrhizobium and Mesorhizobium, which belong to rhizobia, a large community of nitrogen fixers often found in association with plant roots, were present in the Prebiocide samples. Ralstonia, which is prevalent in soils with a high heavy metal content, was detected in the Tank A samples. The detection of many unidentified sequences suggests the presence of potentially novel microbial fingerprints. The bacterial diversity detected in this pilot study using a fosmid vector approach was higher than that detected by conventional 16S rRNA gene sequencing.