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...
April 2020
Protecting against the dangers of space radiation
... not the same for NASA astronauts, not even the same between females and males, or for JAXA’s Japanese astronauts, whilst Europe, Russia and Canada have one standard risk for both male and...
May 2020
An ethical code for living in space
...announced it had been selected as the commercial partner for Phase I of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) first debris removal project, a groundbreaking step by Japan to commercialise space debris removal. Perspective The implementation...
