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...
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...
