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...
14 December 2020
Systems shutdown as ISS suffers from power and oxygen failures
... Sergei Kud-Sverchkov, American astronauts Kathleen Rubins, Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker, and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi all aboard. Deemed a masterpiece of engineering, the ISS has kept people living and...
23 April 2021
NASA's SpaceX Crew-2 heads to the ISS in a reused rocket and capsule
..., Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency (ESA) and Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), will join the Expedition 65 crew already aboard the ISS. Crew-2 commander, Kimbrough, told journalists at a press...
22 December 2021
Scientists present the first-ever analysis of samples retrieved from Ryugu
... Université Paris-Saclay, in Orsay, France, the other is led by Toru Yada at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). To understand the mineralogical and molecular characterisation of the samples, Pilorget and colleagues have used the MicrOmega...
11 June 2024
IAC 2024 is already breaking records
... ispace (Industry Category) PE4: Value of Resources: Recipe for In-Situ Resource Utilization on Space Frontiers, proposed by JAXA (Exploration Category) PE5: Intelligent Space: Big Data, Advanced Algorithms, and Autonomous Robotics in Space, proposed...
16 September 2024
IAF announces exciting programme for IAC in Milan
... ispace (Industry Category) PE4: Value of Resources: Recipe for In-Situ Resource Utilization on Space Frontiers, proposed by JAXA (Exploration Category) PE5: Intelligent Space: Big Data, Advanced Algorithms, and Autonomous Robotics in Space, proposed...