[Server-sky] Nanoracks/CASIS tie-up - a flight opportunity for thinsat prototype hardware?

[Michael Turner]

Unsolicited proposals may be submitted to CASIS here:

  http://www.iss-casis.org/Opportunities/UnsolicitedProposals.aspx

I wouldn't qualify because Project Persephone is a Japanese
organization. "CASIS will not consider projects using non-U.S.
sponsorship." Note an irony: the Nanoracks/CASIS external exposure
facility recently opened up is actually part of Kibo, the Japanese
module of ISS:  It seems that Nanoracks will be contributing only
enough hardware to have their own "real estate" on a Japanese
facility. Ah well ....

Keith probably clears their Principal Investigator bar pretty easily.
Or he /should/, anyway.

I'm trying to figure out if NGO membership would be worthwhile for me.

  http://support.iss-casis.org/membership-benefits

It's not clear what "premier level passes to the Marketplace Exchange"
are worth -- or even what they are. Are these passes like LinkedIn
InMail, only much pricier?

Regards,
Michael Turner

Project Persephone
K-1 bldg 3F
7-2-6 Nishishinjuku
Shinjuku-ku Tokyo 160-0023
Tel: +81 (3) 6890-1140
Fax: +81 (3) 6890-1158
Mobile: +81 (90) 5203-8682
turner at projectpersephone.org
http://www.projectpersephone.org/

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together in the same direction." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 1:07 AM, Michael Turner
<michael.eugene.turner at gmail.com> wrote:
> This sounds like an opportunity to demonstrate (in principle, at
> least) electrochromic solar sailing for thinsats.
>
>   http://www.iss-casis.org/NewsEvents/OnStation/tabid/113/ArticleID/16/ArtMID/570/Default.aspx
>
> There's a lot that might be done with hosted payloads (and not just at
> exposure facilities on ISS) before any kind of free-flying thinsat is
> actually fielded.
>
> Regards,
> Michael Turner
>
> Project Persephone
> K-1 bldg 3F
> 7-2-6 Nishishinjuku
> Shinjuku-ku Tokyo 160-0023
> Tel: +81 (3) 6890-1140
> Fax: +81 (3) 6890-1158
> Mobile: +81 (90) 5203-8682
> turner at projectpersephone.org
> http://www.projectpersephone.org/
>
> "Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward
> together in the same direction." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry