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...
January 2019
Preparing for a robotic revolution in Earth orbit
... of humans, whether astronauts or ground controllers. JAXA’s KIKU-7 (Experimental Test Satellite-7) computer graphics simulation...the first orbiting robot with some degree of automation was JAXA’s Engineering Test Satellite Seven (ETS-VII), flown in ...
April 2019
Cleaning up space
...active participants in trying to create a solution for concerns around space debris. In 2016, the Japanese space agency, JAXA, attempted a mission called KITE, which tested an electro-magnetic tether as a deorbit mechanism. The attempt was ultimately...
February 2020
Europe’s role in space standardisation
...the Orion crew module. We are also working with JAXA, the Japanese Space Agency, and last year launched BepiColombo...Station with its many partners, ExoMars with Russia, Earthcare with JAXA, James Webb Telescope with NASA, SMILE with China), we develop...
August 2020
Interstellar aspirations
... can this ever be done? The Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) was the first to demonstrate a sunlight-propelled light sail... the Lightsail-1 spacecraft and by the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) with its IKAROS probe, launched in 2010. Unfortunately, sunlight...
