October 2020
Essential role of satellites in disaster and pandemic management
... diseases and assist public authorities in health crisis management. Demonstrating the rapid response of satellite technologies, JAXA’s ALOS-2 satellites can conduct automated data analysis and provide information on an emergency within five hours...
September 2021
Developing an in-orbit servicing and manufacturing economy
.... For example, the Japanese and European space agencies JAXA and ESA have already committed funding to Active Debris ...ESA and the Commercial Removal of Debris Demonstration (CRD2) by JAXA. In parallel, the UK Space Agency has funded three studies...
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...
