:Advanced Space Propulsion Investigation Committee

{{short description|Japanese research group (1994–1996)}}

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Advanced Space Propulsion Investigation Committee (ASPIC) was a research group of specialists, including Yoshinari Minami{{cite journal|last=Minami|first=Yoshinari|year=2003|title= An Introduction to Concepts of Field Propulsion|journal=Journal of the British Interplanetary Society|volume=56|pages=350–359|bibcode = 2003JBIS...56..350M }} and Takaaki Musha,{{cite journal|last=Musha|first=Takaaki|year=2008|title= Explanation of Dynamical Biefeld-Brown Effect from the Standpoint of ZPF Field|journal=Journal of the British Interplanetary Society|volume=61|pages=379–384|bibcode = 2008JBIS...61..379M }} which was organized under the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences in 1994. Its purpose was to study various non-chemical space propulsion systems{{cite journal|last=Musha|first=Takaaki|year=2006|title=A study on the possibility of high performance computation using quantum tunnelling photons|journal=International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling|volume= 2|issue= 1–2|pages=63|doi=10.1504/IJSPM.2006.009013 }} instead of the conventional rocket for the use of space missions to near-Earth, the Moon, and the outer solar system, including plasma propulsion, laser propulsion, nuclear propulsion, solar sail and field propulsion systems which utilize a strain on space, zero-point energy in a vacuum, electro-gravitic effect{{explain|date=December 2022}}, non-Newtonian gravitic effect predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity,{{cite journal|last=Forward|first=Robert.L|year=1963|title=Guidelines to Antigravity| journal=American Journal of Physics|volume=31|pages=166–1707|doi=10.1119/1.1969340|bibcode=1963AmJPh..31..166F|issue=3}} and the terrestrial magnetism. The research report was published by the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences in March 1996.{{cite journal|last=ASPIC|year=1996|title=Report of Advanced Space Propulsion Investigation Committee |language=Japanese |journal=Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences}}