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...
September 2017
Measuring space debris risk
... OSG1 small satellite, which will use two Space Debris Monitors supplied by the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA). It is due to launch early in 2018. Another simple idea would be to fit cameras to all spacecraft with solar arrays...
April 2018
Climate monitoring and the need for open access to global environmental satellite data
... to all of its Earth observing satellite data free as of 2012. A year later, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) made access to the majority of its satellite data freely available and many other nations, including Argentina...
January 2019
Engineering six-hour solar eclipses with formation flying
...relative GPS navigation. About the authors Luis F Peñin gained a PhD in Robotics and worked as a Research Fellow at JAXA on several tele-operation experiments of ETS-VII satellite robot arm. He co-founded DEIMOS Space SL in 2001, participating in the...
