April 2025
A bun in the (space) oven - Reasons not to get pregnant while going around Earth at 7.8 kilometres per second
...-gravity Research System. Run by the Japanese space agency, JAXA, it is able to simulate gravity. But even that system...’t be “neato!” it’ll be “DO NOT SEND THEM!” JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa removes experiment hardware from inside the Multi-use...
28 September 2015
Leaders of World Space Agencies To Converge for IAC 2015 in Jerusalem
...Head of Russia’s ROSOSMOS, Naoki Okumura, President of Japan’s JAXA, and Jan Woerner, Director General of the European Space Agency.... Ben-Israel concluded. Naoki Okumura, President of Japan’s JAXA, also expressed his delight in advance of his visit to...
08 February 2016
Japan’s Astro-H mission due to launch on February 12, 2016
...and Astronautical Science (ISAS) of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and is due to be launched from the Tanegashima Space ... been built by a major international collaboration led by JAXA with over 70 contributing institutions in Japan, the US...
04 December 2020
Asteroid sample from Hayabusa2 to land on Earth 6 December
... source,” say the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). If for some unforeseen reason the capsule cannot...Yuichi Tsuda, project manager at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), said at a recent briefing. “We trained ourselves and now...
05 March 2021
For the first time, organic materials essential for life have been found on the surface of an asteroid
... grain of dust collected from an asteroid by JAXA’s first Hayabusa mission in 2010 and later returned... Earth,” Chan says. When coupled with the knowledge that both JAXA’s Hayabusa2 and NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex missions have identified exogeneous materials...
17 November 2020
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts arrive at the ISS
... Glover, Shannon Walker, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi. When the hatches open about 1:10... at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, and JAXA President Hiroshi Yamakawa joining from the Tsukuba Space Center ...
