January 2020
Small body missions unveil interplanetary secrets
... of this type of object has progressed rapidly with JAXA’s Hayabusa mission, which orbited and returned tiny pieces ...an entire subfield in the study of planetary prebiotic compounds. JAXA’s current Hayabusa2 mission at Ryugu and NASA’s OSIRIS-REx ...
July 2014
Is there a space race or are India and China just coming of age?
... spaceflight, and started launching satellites to study comets in the 1980's. In 2003 the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the Hayabusa probe, which successfully rendezvoused with the asteroid 25143 Itokawa and returned dust...
August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
... (CNES) and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), this landing system is expected to descend from ...of planetary physics by measuring the heat flows on Mars. The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury is planned for launch in 2017; DLR is...
28 July 2021
Japan successfully tests rocket engine propelled by shock waves
... Uchinoura about eight minutes later, Japan Times reports. JAXA later retrieved a capsule containing test data in nearby ... the combustion takes place so rapidly – Kasahar and JAXAs system produces self-sustained combustion waves that propagate with a...
25 September 2016
United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs participates in the 67th International Astronautical Congress
...and talk to UNOOSA staff. A joint media briefing with JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will be held in ...Friday 30 September Booth B3, Jalisco Room, Expo Guadalajara UNOOSA-JAXA media briefing on first round of KiboCUBE initiative Monday 26...
16 November 2020
SpaceX launches four astronauts to ISS
... is an important mission for NASA, SpaceX and our partners at JAXA, and we look forward to watching this crew arrive at station...Partner participating in the ISS program,” said Hiroshi Sasaki, JAXA vice president. “We look forward to having him conduct...
