September 2020
Tackling space debris - a global priority
... space mission to actually remove a debris item from orbit; it is planned for launch in 2025. ADRAS-J, by Astroscale and JAXA, is another technology demonstration mission, planned for 2022, which will focus on data acquisition on the upper stage...
October 2020
Connecting the global space community
... neighbour, and the Mars2020 mission will collect material for a future Mars sample return mission. Meanwhile, JAXA’s Hayabusa mission will return samples from near-Earth asteroids (at the end of 2020), so next year we might...
January 2021
What it takes to be a space entrepreneur
... science should be done was the traditional way where you have these large agencies - NASA or ESA or JAXA. Space science was solely the purview of the government. But MILO shows it can be the purview of academia...
January 2021
Medical professionals and long-duration spaceflight
... station from 25 May to 22 June 1973. Mukai Chiaki, a cardiovascular surgeon and astronaut of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) completed two space missions as a payload specialist from 8-23 July 1994 and from 29 October to 7 November 1998...
July 2021
A shared vision for space exploration
... Mark Vande Hei on his shoulders in the weightless environment of the Kibo lab module, with Akihiko Hoshide of JAXA enjoying the fun (Expedition 65, April 2021). Negotiations By the spring of 2020, we were ready to share text with...
August 2021
Robotic systems for psychological support
... Camera) is an experimental, autonomous, self-propelled and manoeuvrable spherical chamber developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and operated by the agency’s ground control team. The Int-Ball floats naturally in the Space Station...
