30 June 2017
A line up of global events for Asteroid Day 2017
...done by space agencies and companies to prevent an impending catastrophe of global proportions. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will be the first to kick off space agency coverage at 5.00 AM CET / GMT+2 live from Tokyo. Makoto Yoshikawa...
27 June 2018
Hayabusa2 reaches Ryugu after a 42 month journey
... returned to Earth for further testing by the end of 2020. A statement from the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said: “From this point, we are planning to conduct exploratory activities in the vicinity of the asteroid, including...
01 August 2018
What now for the ISS as new audit report questions commercial interest
For the past 20 years, the International Space Station (ISS) has served as an off-world floating laboratory for inhabitants around the globe to learn what it means to live and work in space. But what now lies ahead for the permanently inhabited ...
24 July 2019
LightSail 2 unfurls its sails and soars through space
Yesterday, engineers in the US pressed a button that unfurled huge, and incredibly thin silver sails attached to a satellite that is now whizzing around Earth powered by nothing more than the energy of the sun. This small shoe-box-sized cubeSat that...
05 July 2019
JAXA, DLR to cooperate on Martian moons mission
... and DLR, will then be jointly operate the rover once it is safely ensconced on the Martian moon surface. JAXA is no stranger to sending spacecraft to other-world bodies to examine them up close. As part of their Hayabusa2 mission, which is currently...
March 2015
JAXA’s challenge to climate change
...already having a major impact on humanity. Major disasters caused by extreme weather can no longer be simply overlooked. For JAXA it has become important not only to further develop satellite technology and to transmit the information that satellites...
