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Discover Engineering Beyond Gravity
OUR VISION
Discover engineering beyond the conventional path through the use of space.
Engineering has developed within the environment of Earth.
There is gravity, an atmosphere, and materials and energy that can be used on the ground. Many technologies have emerged within these familiar conditions.
What kind of engineering could emerge if we changed those assumptions?
Microgravity, vacuum, radiation, and extreme temperature differences create an environment unlike Earth. LVNS SPACE PROJECT sees space not simply as a place to go, but as a research environment that cannot easily be created on Earth.
Rather than taking technologies from Earth and carrying them into space, we look for principles and methods beyond the conventional path of development through phenomena and experiments that can only be observed or realized in space.
We bring the engineering discovered there back to Earth and connect it to new possibilities for industry and society.
Discover engineering beyond the conventional path through the use of space. This is the vision of LVNS SPACE PROJECT.
WHAT WE DO
Four approaches to making space a field for research and development
LVNS SPACE PROJECT is not simply a project that takes experiments into space.
We create research themes, build ways to access space, prepare environments for experiments, and turn the results into new value.
To discover engineering beyond the conventional path through the use of space, we build the research and development system itself through four approaches.
Create the questions only space can answer.
work with researchers to create questions that can only emerge through the use of space.
Design the best way for each research project to reach space.
choose the space environment that best fits the research objective.
Expand what can be experimented on in space.
We do not only realize one space experiment. We build research infrastructure that the next researcher can use too.
Create new measures of value from space.
Our goal is not to make products for space. We use space to question the value of products on Earth.
MISSION
Build a researchCONNECTING THE FOUR APPROACHES
New research themes and industries
Discover engineering in space. Build industry on Earth.
PROJECT
PROJECT 01
重力外生命研究プロジェクト
Explore how life behaves beyond gravity through microalgae.
A compact cell-culture unit will fly on the Aoba satellite to observe the microalga Euglena in microgravity. The project combines space experiments, Earth-based analysis, and a research-and-education program developed with the next generation, especially middle and high school students.
DETAILS ↗LATEST UPDATES
LVNS SPACE PROJECT launches with SpaceNome Lab and IDDK as operating partners, and a joint smart textile development project with Hasetora Spinning.
LVNS SPACE PROJECT has launched with the publication of its official website.
OUR PARTNERS
Let us build the future of space together.
OPERATING PARTNERS
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LVNS SPACE PROJECT is looking for partners who want to take on new challenges from a starting point in space.
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