May 2019
Cold comfort for astronauts
... level needs of the crew, then wrapping the basic needs around them. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Koichi Wakata strapped into his sleeping bag in his sleep station located in Node 2 of the ISS. The...
June 2019
The challenge of planetary protection
... Vienna meeting, the Panel made recommendations on the Phobos/Deimos sample return categorisation regarding the International JAXA-led Martian Moons eXploration mission (MMX). This is an ambitious project that will travel to Mars and survey...
July 2019
Who owns outer space?
... is it only private companies that hope to commercialise space. In February 2019, a spacecraft launched by the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) landed a spacecraft on the asteroid Ryugu following a three-and-a-half year journey. The previous month, China...
September 2019
A new era in planetary defence missions
... Principal Investigator for the Mars-moon Exploration with GAmma rays and NEutrons (MEGANE) instrument on the JAXA Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission and the Coordination Lead on NASA’s DART mission. Asteroid 6899 Nancychabot...
December 2019
Human conception and childbirth in space
... Ames, Indiana University (US), SCK-SEN (Belgium), the Russian Academy of Science, the University of Yamanashi (Japan) and JAXA, to name just a few. Much of this research focused on animals. Ethical concerns Pioneering and innovating work in this...
February 2020
Aeroshells – from LEO to Mars
...) research group, established at the turn of the millennium as a partnership between the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the University of Tokyo and a dozen other Japanese universities. EGG is one example of a successful aeroshell design...
