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...
April 2019
On-board propulsion set to drive the smallsat revolution
...be able to function correctly. This was a problem encountered on the Hayabusa spacecraft of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on its return voyage from a near-Earth asteroid in 2007-2010. ThrustMe’s second innovation is the use of a novel...
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...
