28 July 2017
Japan's first privately developed rocket launches tomorrow
... Technologies. The 10 metre, 1000 kilogram rocket is scheduled to blast off from a launch site in the town of Taiki, Hokkaido, northern Japan, in the morning of July 29, said the company. Interstellar technologies was established in 1997 by a group...
November 2017
Japanese space industrial policy in transition
... the commercial market. Interstellar Technologies, based in Hokkaido, Japan, aims to provide high levels of reliability...Interstellar Technologies engineers. Interstellar Technologies, based in Hokkaido, Japan, is building a small launcher comparable ...
06 May 2019
Japan's first private rocket launches successfully
... after taking off from the company's test site in the town of Taiki on Japan's northern main island of Hokkaido and flew for about 10 minutes. It later fell into the Pacific Ocean after exceeding the boundary...
20 May 2019
A thin layer of ice-trapped gas stops Pluto's oceans from freezing
... researchers whose lead author on the research paper recently submitted to Nature Geoscience, is Shunichi Kamata based at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. The trapped molecules official name are clathrate hydrates. Clathrate hydrates or gas...