DigitalBlast
{{Short description|Japanese aerospace consulting firm}}
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| industry = aerospace
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| founded = December 2018 in Saitama, Saitama, Japan
| founder = Shingo Horiguchi
| hq_location_city = Chiyoda, Tokyo
| hq_location_country = Japan
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| products = centrifuges
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| website = {{URL|https://digitalblast.co.jp/}}
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DigitalBlast is a Japanese aerospace consulting firm focusing on the space industry in general.{{cite news |last=Shimazaki |first=Amane |date=November 20, 2022 |title=Firms work on growing food in space so humans can live on moon |url=https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14754694 |newspaper=The Asahi Shimbun |access-date=2023-07-19}} It provides guidance to firms seeking to enter the space sector, along with providing support for digital transformation.{{cite web |url=https://en.digitalblast.co.jp/#about |title=Our Business |publisher=DigitalBlast |access-date=2023-07-19}}{{cite news |last=Yoshida |first=Hiroshi |date=October 28, 2023 |title=宇宙の視点を入れた戦略でビジネスの可能性を拡大する デジタルブラスト 堀口真吾 |url=https://net.keizaikai.co.jp/66482 |language=Japanese |newspaper=Keizaikai |accessdate=2023-07-20}} The company also manages SPACE Media, a news website focusing on private spaceflight.{{cite press release|date=September 8, 2020|title=宇宙ビジネスを推進する株式会社デジタルブラストが、宇宙の知見、知識を体系的に広め、多くの方々の宇宙ビジネスへのニーズを喚起するためのメディア『SPACEMedia（スペースメディア）』をローンチ|url=https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000004.000051518.html|language=ja|publisher=DigitalBlast|access-date=July 19, 2023}}
Project NOAH
Project NOAH is a research and development project of DigitalBlast which aims to develop technologies that will realize a self-sustaining environment on the Moon, in anticipation of human habitats being built there in the near future. One goal of the project is to study the effects low-gravity has on plant production. The AMAZ research equipment will be the first step of this project.{{cite press release|date=May 17, 2022|title=DigitalBlastが月面での生態循環維持システム構築に向けたプロジェクト「NOAH」を本格始動|url=https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000017.000051518.html|language=ja|publisher=DigitalBlast|access-date=July 19, 2023}}
=AMAZ=
AMAZ is a research equipment under development by DigitalBlast that will use centrifugal forces to create artificial gravity equivalent to the lunar surface. AMAZ will be sent to the International Space Station (ISS) and will be used to conduct research on plant growth. Experiments to be conducted by AMAZ include a study on the growth of moss in different gravity environments by Toyama University,{{cite press release|date=July 13, 2022|title=DigitalBlast、富山大学・唐原一郎教授、蒲池浩之准教授の研究グループと共同研究開始|url=https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000023.000051518.html|language=ja|publisher=DigitalBlast|access-date=July 19, 2023}} and cultivating brewer's yeast in the gravity environment of the Moon and Mars{{cite press release|date=July 20, 2022|title=DigitalBlast、シクロと重力発生装置「AMAZ（アマツ）」の利用を含めた業務委託契約を締結|url=https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000025.000051518.html|language=ja|publisher=DigitalBlast|access-date=July 19, 2023}} in cooperation with the University of Tokyo and Nara Institute of Science and Technology.{{cite press release|date=January 31, 2023|title=DigitalBlast、東京大学・大矢禎一教授と奈良先端科学技術大学院大学・渡辺大輔准教授の研究グループ、シクロと共同研究開始
|url=https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000038.000051518.html|language=ja|publisher=DigitalBlast|access-date=July 19, 2023}}
In November 2022, DigitalBlast signed a contract with Axiom Space for placing AMAZ inside the ISS National Lab.{{cite press release|date=November 1, 2022|title=DigitalBlast, Inc. signed Service Contract with Axiom Space, Inc., a U.S. company, including the launch of compact life-science experimental device “AMAZ” planned in 2024.|url=https://digitalblast.co.jp/news/112/|publisher=DigitalBlast|access-date=July 19, 2023}}{{cite press release|date=January 17, 2023|title=当社仲介によりAxiom Space, Inc.が、株式会社DigitalBlastと国際宇宙ステーションでの実証実験実施に関する業務委託契約を締結|url=https://aerospace.mitsui.co.jp/topics/20230117/|language=ja|publisher=Mitsui Bussan Aerospace|access-date=July 19, 2023}} Axiom Space will support AMAZ's safety review, along with providing a transport service to orbit and its retrieval. The agreement also left open the possibility of the AMAZ device later being placed inside the Axiom Orbital Segment, a privately operated space station that will be docked to the ISS. The same month, it was announced that Mitsubishi Heavy Industries was contracted to design AMAZ's flight model.{{cite press release|date=November 24, 2022|title=DigitalBlast、小型ライフサイエンス実験装置「AMAZ（アマツ）」のフライトモデル開発・製造に向け、三菱重工へ設計を委託 2024年のISS設置・運用を目指す宇宙実験装置の開発・製造をさらに加速
|url=https://digitalblast.co.jp/news/119/|language=ja|publisher=DigitalBlast|access-date=July 19, 2023}}
In February 2023, DigitalBlast announced plans for a modified version of AMAZ dubbed 'AMAZ Alpha', which will be used for cell culturing.{{cite news |last=Haru |first=Kyusen |date=February 9, 2023 |title=DigitalBlast、ISSでの細胞実験を実現する小型実験装置の開発を開始 |url=https://news.mynavi.jp/techplus/article/20230209-2586974/ |language=Japanese |newspaper=Mynavi news |accessdate=2023-07-19}}
=TAMAKI=
TAMAKI is a research equipment that will be capable of supplying water to grow plants inside. TAMAKI will be carried inside an uncrewed science satellite complete with a retrieval space capsule being developed by Elevation Space. As of August 2022, TAMAKI was planned to be launched in 2026.{{cite press release|date=August 17, 2022|title=ElevationSpaceとDigitalBlast、低重力環境での植物栽培実験環境提供のため、小型宇宙利用・回収プラットフォームの利用に向けMOUを締結|url=https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000021.000074085.html|language=ja|publisher=Elevation Space|access-date=July 19, 2023}}
See also
References
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External links
- {{Official website|https://en.digitalblast.co.jp/}}
- [https://digitalblast.co.jp/ Official website(Japanese)]
- [https://spacemedia.jp/ SPACE Media(managed by DigitalBlast)]