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Rocket Girls (novel Series)
is a Japanese light novel series by Hōsuke Nojiri. Set in the Solomon Islands, it follows the exploits of high-school girl Yukari Morita, who is pressed into service as an astronaut by a private Japanese space company called the Solomon Space Association when it is unable to build a rocket that can lift the weight of an adult male. ''Rocket Girls'' was adapted into a 12-episode anime television series that aired between February and May 2007. It was produced with the assistance of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, which included astronaut Naoko Yamazaki voicing herself in Episode 7. Bandai Entertainment had the license and released a subtitled-only Complete Collection DVD on October 28, 2008, before it closed its doors in 2011. Sentai Filmworks announced on September 27, 2018, that it would release the series on a subtitled-only SD Blu-ray, SD-BD set on January 15, 2019. Characters * Morita Yukari (Sendai Eri) * Matsuri (Nabatame Hitomi) * Miura Akane (Hasegawa Shizuk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hōsuke Nojiri
(born 1961 in Mie Prefecture) is a Japanese science fiction writer. After a career as a CAD programmer and game designer, he was first published in 1992, the ''Creguian'' game novelization. He admires Arthur C. Clarke, and his own works are classified as hard science fiction, favoring planetary science as a theme. His '' Rocket Girls'' series deals with human spaceflight in a light novel form with hard SF backing; the reason that only girls are hired as astronauts in the novels is for their light weight. Awards *1999: S-F Magazine Readers Award Best Japanese Short Story for (short story version) *2000: Seiun Award Best Short Story of the Year for (short story version) *2002: Seiun Award Best Novel of the Year for *2003: Seiun Award Best Novel of the Year for (novel version) *2007: Seiun Award Best Short Story of the Year for ("A Furoshiki and Spider's Thread") *2008: Seiun Award Best Short Story of the Year for *2009: Seiun Award Best Short Story of the Year for Bibl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bandai Entertainment
was a Japanese anime, film production, and distribution company, established by Bandai and a subsidiary of Bandai Namco Holdings. They focused mainly in international distribution of anime properties in North America. Most of the anime and films that have been distributed and licensed by Bandai Visual have been released under the Emotion label. After the reorganization of Bandai Namco Holdings in 2006, Bandai Visual headed the group's Visual and Music Content Strategic Business Unit. Its subsidiaries included the Emotion Music Company, Ltd. (whose logos also include the Moai from Easter Island), and Lantis music publishing labels. Until 2012, it was involved in the production and distribution of several anime titles, including those it has directly produced itself and anime series produced by the anime studio Sunrise, an alternate anime studio subsidiary of Bandai Namco Holdings. In September 2017, Bandai Visual acquired the anime studio Actas. In February 2018, it was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rocket
A rocket (from , and so named for its shape) is a vehicle that uses jet propulsion to accelerate without using any surrounding air. A rocket engine produces thrust by reaction to exhaust expelled at high speed. Rocket engines work entirely from propellant carried within the vehicle; therefore a rocket can fly in the vacuum of space. Rockets work more efficiently in a vacuum and incur a loss of thrust due to the opposing pressure of the atmosphere. Multistage rockets are capable of attaining escape velocity from Earth and therefore can achieve unlimited maximum altitude. Compared with airbreathing engines, rockets are lightweight and powerful and capable of generating large accelerations. To control their flight, rockets rely on momentum, airfoils, auxiliary reaction engines, gimballed thrust, momentum wheels, deflection of the exhaust stream, propellant flow, spin, or gravity. Rockets for military and recreational uses date back to at least 13th-century China. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Expendable Launch System
An expendable launch system (or expendable launch vehicle/ELV) is a launch vehicle that can be launched only once, after which its components are destroyed during reentry or impact with Earth, or discarded in space. ELVs typically consist of several rocket stages that are discarded sequentially as their fuel is exhausted and the vehicle gains altitude and speed. As of 2024, fewer and fewer satellites and human spacecraft are launched on ELVs in favor of reusable launch vehicles. However, there are many instances where a ELV may still have a compelling use case over a reusable vehicle. ELVs are simpler in design than reusable launch systems and therefore may have a lower production cost. Furthermore, an ELV can use its entire fuel supply to accelerate its payload, offering greater payloads. ELVs are a proven technology in widespread use for many decades. Current operators Arianespace China ISRO During the 1960s and 1970s, India initiated its own launch vehicle program ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Multistage Rocket
A multistage rocket or step rocket is a launch vehicle that uses two or more rocket ''stages'', each of which contains its own engines and propellant. A ''tandem'' or ''serial'' stage is mounted on top of another stage; a ''parallel'' stage is attached alongside another stage. The result is effectively two or more rockets stacked on top of or attached next to each other. Two-stage rockets are quite common, but rockets with as many as five separate stages have been successfully launched. By jettisoning stages when they run out of propellant, the mass of the remaining rocket is decreased. Each successive stage can also be optimized for its specific operating conditions, such as decreased atmospheric pressure at higher altitudes. This ''staging'' allows the thrust of the remaining stages to more easily accelerate the rocket to its final velocity and height. In serial or tandem staging schemes, the first stage is at the bottom and is usually the largest, the second stage and subse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Low Earth Orbit
A low Earth orbit (LEO) is an geocentric orbit, orbit around Earth with a orbital period, period of 128 minutes or less (making at least 11.25 orbits per day) and an orbital eccentricity, eccentricity less than 0.25. Most of the artificial objects in outer space are in LEO, peaking in number at an altitude around , while the farthest in LEO, before medium Earth orbit (MEO), have an altitude of 2,000 km, about one-third of the Earth radius, radius of Earth and near the beginning of the Van Allen radiation belt#Inner belt, inner Van Allen radiation belt. The term ''LEO region'' is used for the area of space below an altitude of (about one-third of Earth's radius). Objects in orbits that pass through this zone, even if they have an apogee further out or are sub-orbital spaceflight, sub-orbital, are carefully tracked since they present a collision risk to the many LEO satellites. No human spaceflights other than the lunar missions of the Apollo program (1968-1972) have gone beyond L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nagashima Yuuichi
was a series of fortresses and fortifications controlled by the Ikkō-ikki, a sect of warrior monks in Japan's Sengoku period who opposed samurai rule. It was attacked and destroyed by Oda Nobunaga in the 1570s. This, combined with the surrender of the Ikki's other main fortress, Ishiyama Hongan-ji, several years later, ended the threat the Ikko-ikki posed to Nobunaga and other ''samurai'' conquerors. The fortress was situated on a swampy river delta, delta, on the border of Owari Province, Owari and Ise Provinces, at the point where three rivers converge, to the southwest of the modern-day city of Nagoya. Nagashima was in fact a number of smaller fortifications surrounding two primary buildings and not a single fortress. Nagashima Castle was built in 1555 by Ito Shigeharu, and seized by the Ikkō-ikki shortly afterwards, in much the same way they had seized a number of other daimyōs' holdings. The Ganshō-ji fortified monastery formed the second center of Nagashima's defense. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natsuki Rio
is a Japanese voice actress and singer. Notable voice roles Anime *''Angelic Layer'' (Tsubasa McEnzie) *''Battle Athletes series'' (Akari Kanzaki) *'' Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040'' ( Linna Yamazaki) *''Carnival Phantasm'' ( Sion Eltnam Atlasia) *''Digimon Adventure 02'' ( Miyako Inoue) *''Domain of Murder'' (Hitomi Sagawa) *''El-Hazard'' ( Nanami Jinnai) *''Full Metal Panic!'' (Eri Kagurazaka) *''Geneshaft'' (Gloria, Ryoko Banning, Sybil) *''GetBackers'' ( Hevn) *''Macross 7'' (Miho Miho) *''Pokémon'' (Asuna) *''Rockman EXE Axess'' (Silk) *''Shugo Chara!'' (Yukari Sanjou) *''Skip Beat!'' (Shouko Aki) *'' Super Robot Wars Original Generation: The Animation'' ( Rio Mei Long) *'' Super Robot Wars Original Generation: Divine Wars'' ( Rio Mei Long) *''Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki'' (Rea Masaki) *''The Snow Queen'' (Kai) *''To Heart 2'' ( Ruko Kireinasora/Lucy Maria Misora) *''Turn A Gundam'' (Merrybell Gadget) *''Tweeny Witches'' (Head) *'' Ultraviolet: Code 044'' (Mother, Citizens) *'' D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hasegawa Shizuka
is a Japanese voice actress from Tokyo, Japan. She appears as a main cast member in a number of Japanese anime series including as: Yukino in ''Nagasarete Airantō'', Nana in ''Angel Tales'', Tomohane in '' Inukami'', Akane Miura in ''Rocket Girls'', and Tama Hieda in ''Shrine of the Morning Mist''. Filmography *''Aishiteruze Baby'' as Namiko (ep 23) *''Angel Tales'' as Inu no Nana (Dog) *''Futakoi'' as Ruru Hinagiku *''Futakoi Alternative'' as Ruru Hinagiku *''Inukami!'' as Tomohane *'' Lucky Star'' as Yutaka Kobayakawa *''Nagasarete Airantō'' as Yukino * ''Rocket Girls'' as Akane Miura *''Shrine of the Morning Mist'' as Tama Hieda *''Tenshi no Shippo Chu!'' as Dog Nana *''Whistle!'' as Miyuki Sakurai *''Sumomomo Momomo'' as Koganei Tenchi *''Onegai My Melody'' as Harumi *''Whispered Words'' as Kiyoka *''Lilpri'' Manatsu Natsume Live-action roles *''Negima! Magister Negi Magi ''Negima! Magister Negi Magi'', known in Japan as , is a Japanese manga series writte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nabatame Hitomi
is a Japanese actress and singer who is affiliated with Ken Production. She sang the opening themes for ''Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu'' under the name "Miran Himemiya and Chocolate Rockers". Biography Filmography Anime ;2003 *''Maburaho'' (Yūna Miyama) *'' Shingetsutan Tsukihime'' (Arcueid Brunestud) ;2004 *''Maria Watches Over Us'' (Eriko Torii) *''Daphne in the Brilliant Blue'' (May) *''Futari wa Pretty Cure'' (Yumiko Nakagawa) *''Mirmo Zibang!'' (Cameri) *''Gantz'' (Kei Kishimoto) *''Maria Watches Over Us Season 2: Printemps'' (Eriko Torii) *''Ninja Nonsense'' (Kunoichi) *''School Rumble'' (Mikoto Suou) *''Uta∽Kata'' (Izumi Tachibana) *'' Rockman.EXE Stream'' (Route) *''Zoids Fuzors'' (Betty) *''Desert Punk'' (Mariko) *''Tactics'' (Shino) *''Bleach'' (Misato Ochi, Nanao Ise, Ryō Kunieda) ;2005 *''Pani Poni Dash!'' (Misao Nanjo) *''Trinity Blood'' (Kate Scott) *''Starship Operators'' (Dita Mirkob) *''Ultimate Girls'' (Vivienne Ohtori) *''Glass Mask'' (Cordelia) *''Best ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
