DigitalBlast is a Japanese aerospace consulting firm focusing on the space industry in general. It provides guidance to firms seeking to enter the space sector, along with providing support for

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. The company also manages SPACE Media, a news website focusing on

private spaceflight Private spaceflight is any spaceflight development that is not conducted by a government agency, such as NASA or ESA. During the early decades of the Space Age, the government space agencies of the Soviet Union and United States pionee ...

Project NOAH

Project NOAH is a research and development project of DigitalBlast which aims to develop technologies that will realize a self-sustaining environment on the

Moon The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It Orbit of the Moon, orbits around Earth at Lunar distance, an average distance of (; about 30 times Earth diameter, Earth's diameter). The Moon rotation, rotates, with a rotation period (lunar ...

, in anticipation of human habitats being built there in the near future. One goal of the project is to study the effects low-gravity has on plant production. The AMAZ research equipment will be the first step of this project.

AMAZ

AMAZ is a research equipment under development by DigitalBlast that will use centrifugal forces to create artificial gravity equivalent to the lunar surface. AMAZ will be sent to the

International Space Station The International Space Station (ISS) is a large space station that was Assembly of the International Space Station, assembled and is maintained in low Earth orbit by a collaboration of five space agencies and their contractors: NASA (United ...

(ISS) and will be used to conduct research on plant growth. Experiments to be conducted by AMAZ include a study on the growth of

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in different gravity environments by Toyama University, and cultivating

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in the gravity environment of the Moon and

Mars Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun. It is also known as the "Red Planet", because of its orange-red appearance. Mars is a desert-like rocky planet with a tenuous carbon dioxide () atmosphere. At the average surface level the atmosph ...

in cooperation with the

University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo (, abbreviated as in Japanese and UTokyo in English) is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several pre-westernisation era ins ...

and Nara Institute of Science and Technology. In November 2022, DigitalBlast signed a contract with

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for placing AMAZ inside the ISS National Lab. Axiom Space will support AMAZ's safety review, along with providing a transport service to orbit and its retrieval. The agreement also left open the possibility of the AMAZ device later being placed inside the Axiom Orbital Segment, a privately operated

space station A space station (or orbital station) is a spacecraft which remains orbital spaceflight, in orbit and human spaceflight, hosts humans for extended periods of time. It therefore is an artificial satellite featuring space habitat (facility), habitat ...

that will be docked to the ISS. The same month, it was announced that

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was contracted to design AMAZ's flight model. In February 2023, DigitalBlast announced plans for a modified version of AMAZ dubbed 'AMAZ Alpha', which will be used for cell culturing.

TAMAKI

TAMAKI is a research equipment that will be capable of supplying water to grow plants inside. TAMAKI will be carried inside an uncrewed science satellite complete with a retrieval

space capsule A space capsule is a spacecraft designed to transport cargo, scientific experiments, and/or astronauts to and from space. Capsules are distinguished from other spacecraft by the ability to survive reentry and return a payload to the Earth's surfa ...

being developed by Elevation Space. As of August 2022, TAMAKI was planned to be launched in 2026.

References

External links

* {{Official website, https://en.digitalblast.co.jp/
Official website(Japanese)

SPACE Media(managed by DigitalBlast)
Companies based in Tokyo Private spaceflight companies

Project NOAH

AMAZ

TAMAKI

See also

References

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