Space Technology Division
Space Technology
Division
Expanding humanity’s space frontier through interdisciplinary science and technology
This group fuses engineering, agriculture, and physical education to expand humanity’s frontier, applying new cross-disciplinary technologies to propose innovative systems. Through the Tsukuba Research and Education Organization (tentative)—including a graduate school with JAXA—we actively pursue talent development and joint research.
Overview
- Space Exploration Engineering
- Develops the engineering that lets humans enter and operate in space, aiming to accomplish missions in uncharted regions.
- Space Utilization
- Creates new achievements using the space environment —from studying microgravity fluid phenomena to producing media art.
- Space Sports
- Studies how to maintain fitness effectively under microgravity and develops new sports possible only in micro- / low-gravity.
- Space Agriculture
- Researches extraterrestrial crop cultivation to support long-term human stays in space.
Mission
- Construction technologies for lunar development
- Improving living qualities for long-term space activity
- Generating results on post-ISS research platforms
- Food-supply technologies for extraterrestrial environments
- Creating and leading an interdisciplinary space-development engineering field
- Cultivating integrated-engineering talent with a global perspective
Faculty Members
- Space Development Eng.
- Toshihiro Kameda, Takashi Matsushima, Yu Daimon, Takayasu Fujino,
Shigeru Yokota, Seiji Tsutsumi,
Atsushi Okamoto, Tadahito Mizutani
- Space Utilization
- Hiroaki Yano, Hassan Modar,
Satoshi Matsumoto, Tatsuki Fushimi,
Yoichi Ochiai
- Space Sports
- Hideyuki Takahashi, Seiji Ono,
Takashi Matsui
- Space Agriculture
- Tofael Ahamed, Mito Kokawa,
Naoya Fukuda
