June 2017
Bepi-Colombo will unveil Mercury’s secrets
...Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO), a spinning spacecraft provided by JAXA. It will carry a payload of five advanced scientific... using the Usuda 64 m antenna in Japan, the ISAS/JAXA Sagamihara Space Operation Centre, will take over the operation of ...
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...
31 July 2025
Space Station Crew-11 astronauts set for launch
... NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov...giving bad readings. On Wednesday NASA, SpaceX, Roscosmos and JAXA completed the Launch Readiness Review and mission managers polled that ...
