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...
August 2016
Space stations - drivers of cooperation
... lines, ESA has established competencies in specific areas of planetary exploration, as has the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA). Besides technology, the geographical location of nations on the equator could be more gainfully utilised for launch and...
May 2017
Will international space law struggle to remain relevant?
... on the ground. As well as technology hurdles, such systems will also need to be subject to specific space governance issues. JAXA These uncertainties coalesce with other risks and all point to the need for an institutional form of space...
