05 March 2021
For the first time, organic materials essential for life have been found on the surface of an asteroid
... grain of dust collected from an asteroid by JAXA’s first Hayabusa mission in 2010 and later returned... Earth,” Chan says. When coupled with the knowledge that both JAXA’s Hayabusa2 and NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex missions have identified exogeneous materials...
17 November 2020
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts arrive at the ISS
... Glover, Shannon Walker, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi. When the hatches open about 1:10... at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, and JAXA President Hiroshi Yamakawa joining from the Tsukuba Space Center ...
October 2015
Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system
...-2) micro lander, supplied by the German Aerospace Center DLR. It’s a direct descendant of the MASCOT-1 lander currently aboard JAXA’s Hayabusa-2 mission, embarked on a mission to Near-Earth Asteroid 1999 JU3 for a 2018 touchdown. MASCOT-2 will...
October 2015
Copernicus, ESA’s most ambitious Earth Observation programme
... and Radiation Explorer (EarthCARE) mission is being implemented in cooperation with the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Its aim is to improve the representation and understanding of Earth’s radiative balance in climate and numerical...
October 2015
Baikonur, Kibo and beyond: Japan’s leading role in space
... to Mr Saveliev, deputy head of ROSCOSMOS, Mr Gersyenmaier and other colleagues from NASA, Mr De Winne from ESA and our JAXA colleagues including astronaut Wakata and, of course, the astronauts currently aboard the ISS, who inspired me to reflect...
March 2016
Searching for water in the Solar System
... time. Hence, other missions under formulation include a rendezvous and even a lander. The Japanese space agency JAXA is even proposing an ambitious mission with a solar-sail spacecraft that would perform a sample return from one...
