18 January 2019
Made-to-order meteor shower satellite now in space
... Epsilon-4 rocket that was launched from the Uchinoura space centre by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on Friday morning. The rocket carried a total of seven ultra-small satellites that will demonstrate various "innovative...
06 December 2020
Hayabusa2 capsule containing asteroid samples lands on Earth
...facility. NASA's Associate Administrator Thomas Zurbuchen, along with many well wishers around the globe, congratulated JAXA on their sample-return success; "This is an extremely challenging endeavor and we commend and congratulate Japan on being not...
08 October 2018
A round-up of news from this years IAC
...formal partners, NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) agreed to strengthen ties on the development of the ...XRISM) that is scheduled to blast off in 2021 on a JAXA H-2A rocket; XRISM is being built to investigate X-ray celestial ...
05 April 2019
Hayabusa2 probe 'bombs' asteroid to create a crater
... bullet at Ryugu’s rugged surface to collect dislodged debris, JAXA’s Hayabusa2 probe has gone one better this time by 'bombing... rock ejected from the impact site were caught on camera, but JAXA has said that it will only be able to confirm whether an...
29 April 2020
Scientists discover ancient nitrogen-bearing organic material in martian meteorite
... and Astronautical Science at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) say they are confident they have found the first... detect the nitrogen content of the ALH84001 carbonates, the ELSI-JAXA team first plucked off the tiny carbonate grains, which are...
October 2015
Japan’s H-IIA rocket: beautiful, accurate, and on-time
... since its first flight in 2001. In 2007, the launch business for the H-IIA was transferred from JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan’s successor to NASDA) to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. The rocket completed its 28th...
