Recent Activity of Space Terminology in Japan
- Paper number
IAC-08.E7.1.4
- Author
Prof. Yuko Inatomi, ISAS/JAXA, Japan
- Coauthor
Prof. Tetsuo Yoshimitsu, ISAS/JAXA, Japan
- Year
2008
- Abstract
In recent years research topics of space have been taken up on news and on the Internet frequently, and thus the importance of providing the accurate information to the public is inevitably increasing in the related researchers and educators. The domestic commercial encyclopedia of space is now being edited by members with academic backgrounds of space science and technology in Japan in order to widely disperse the right knowledge to the public. The book consists of general information and glossary for the terms of rockets, satellites, space environment utilization, manned activity, and space science. It leads the reader, whose academic level is assumed to be at junior high school students and up, to expert knowledge through the contents in a simple but accurate style. The first author of the present paper is involved in the project of editing the book, especially taking charge of research on space environment utilization. In addition, the author is also editing a glossary of microgravity terms on the Internet as a member of an editorial board of a journal related to microgravity science and application. This paper presents the project of the encyclopedia and the provision of information about microgravity research on the Internet in the point view of terminology.- Abstract document
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