22 July 2015
Flawless Baikonur launch sees Soyuz head to ISS, reminds of importance of international cooperation
... “work horse” of a spacecraft, is set to deliver NASA’s Kjell Lindgren of NASA, Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos and Kimiya Yui of JAXA to a new home in orbit. Following a series of startling failures of unmanned missions to the ISS in the last few months...
11 December 2015
ISS Crew have undocked and are heading for Earth
..., Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos (Russian Federal Space Agency) and Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will land in their Soyuz spacecraft, northeast of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan at 8.12 am EST. NASA Television will air live...
02 January 2018
2017 - What a year!
... in our Solar System – Mercury – is scheduled for lift-off in October. Known as BepiColombo, the joint ESO and JAXA mission is made up of two spacecraft, the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO...
16 March 2020
Porous nature of Ryugu suggests formation from fluffy particles, new study says
... particles. Now on its way back to Earth armed with samples from the surface of this primitive asteroid, JAXA’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft had spent a year and half taking detailed observations of this potentially hazardous near-Earth...
10 April 2020
A recently discovered stellar black hole could be the most massive yet, say astronomers
... J1348−630, the team behind the discovery, headed by Mayu Tominaga from Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), set about pinpointing where the BHB was hiding, in order to calculate its distance and its mass...
09 October 2020
BepiColombo could search for signs of life as it flybys Venus next week
... ago, the Mercury probe BepiColombo, a joint endeavour between ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA, will get within 10 720 kilometres of Venus on its way to explore the smallest terrestrial planet in the Solar...
