January 2017
New oceans beckon for solar sail technology
... - The Japanese Space Agency’s IKAROS solar sail in flight. JAXA Before committing. In other words, moving the sail from one ... follow. That same year, the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) flew an approximately 200 square metre solar sail in deep...
July 2019
Next steps in human space exploration
...& Regulations, UAE Space Agency), Koichi Wakata, (Vice-President of JAXA) and George Whitesides (CEO of Virgin Galactic). It was moderated ...commercial and entrepreneurial sector, while agencies like Roscosmos, JAXA, CSA, ESA and NASA move on to lunar ...
19 October 2018
Countdown begins for the launch of BepiColombo
...– ESA’s joint mission with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), that is destined for a long and complex journey before ...has not put off scientists and engineers from ESA and JAXA, who have designed a spacecraft capable of surviving these ...
24 September 2018
Hayabusa2 rovers land successfully on Ryugu
... left and Rover-1B is on the right. Behind the rovers is the cover in which they are stored. Image: JAXA.
November 2017
Japanese space industrial policy in transition
... and components, but may include supporting human resource or space policy development, providing technical assistance through JAXA and Japanese universities, and releasing satellites via the Kibo module on the International Space Station. Finally...
October 2025
The law as a last line of defence when space debris hit home
...upgrade the station. The pallet was supposed to be returned onboard JAXA’s (Japanese Aerospace Exploration Authority) H-IIB launch vehicle, but ..., so in this case Japan could seek out JAXA or whatever insurance they claimed. Third-party liability ...
