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...
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...
