The International Space University announced that the 2007 Summer Session Program (SSP07) will convene in Beijing, China. The program begins Monday, June 25 and closes on Friday, August 24, 2007.
ISU is partnering with the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) and Beihang University to make this session possible. The site for the SSP07 will be at Beihang University located in the northern part of downtown Beijing.
SSP07 will feature an inaugural year format that was cooperatively developed by the ISU Academic Council and the ISU SSP staff. The SSP will be divided into three interrelated phases:
- Phase I - Core (4weeks)
- Phase II - Departmental focus (3-weeks overlaps, 1 week with Core
- Phase III - Team Project (3 weeks).
The SSP07 session will run 9 weeks in total.
Team Project topics for 2007 are (as presented by ISU):
- On Orbit Servicing: This Team Project will identify innovative solutions and mission concepts for future on-orbit servicing (OOS) missions. On-orbit servicing refers to the capability of repairing,maintaining and integrating spacecraft. Although some elements of OOS technical feasibility have been demonstrated in past missions (e.g.Japan's ETS-VII mission), OOS is still at a nascent stage, full of many challenges and opportunities. This Team Project will analyze future OOS systems from an interdisciplinary perspective. This topic is very suitable for such an analysis, since it entails many technical, economic and policy/law aspects.
- Lunar Archive: Human history is full of examples of the irretrievable loss of civilization's treasures. Placing duplicates beyond the reach of even the greatest catastrophe on Earth is now technically possible but the concept raises many interesting questions that are yet to be examined. This project will cover all aspects of placing on the Moon a repository of vital, retrievable information to rescue civilization in the event of a global disaster on Earth. Such an archive, built up over time, can also serve as a primary source supporting the information needs of a growing human presence on the Moon. The project will explore the technical challenges as well as the relevant policy, legal, cultural and moral questions.
- TBD: To be chosen by the host
For more information, visit http://www.isunet.edu/EN/211
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