May 2026
Focusing the world on planetary defence
... (Space Mission Planning Advisory Group): Also under the UN, evaluates possible missions and promotes international standards. JAXA (Japan): Partner in Hera and Ramses, providing advanced technologies. CNSA (China): Developing its own asteroid...
13 March 2015
Russian space agency endorses ISS until 2024
... to more years of space station operations. For all the space station partners — but particularly ESA and JAXA — finding money to pay for the program after 2020 may depend on cutting the cost of operating the...
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...
