January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
... project uses a constellation of three 1U CubeSats developed by Japan, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Space is not a new ... of intense political bargaining between the US, Europe, and Japan, and included Russian deal-making on missile technology export controls...
13 March 2015
Russian space agency endorses ISS until 2024
... its contribution to the program before deciding what to do. Naoki Okumura, president of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, said in October that Japan would decide by 2016 whether to commit to more years of space station operations. For...
28 September 2015
Leaders of World Space Agencies To Converge for IAC 2015 in Jerusalem
..., Administrator of NASA, Xu Dazhe, Administrator of China’s CNSA, Igor Komarov, Head of Russia’s ROSOSMOS, Naoki Okumura, President of Japan’s JAXA, and Jan Woerner, Director General of the European Space Agency. “As the incoming Director General...
07 December 2015
Massive baby galaxies nestled in dark matter filaments found by ALMA
...led by Hideki Umehata, a postdoctoral fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science staying at the ... Telescope, operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ). Observations confirmed that the young monstrous galaxies...
18 January 2016
Does a second black hole lurk near the centre of the Milky Way?
... to be detected. Using the Nobeyama 45-m Telescope in Japan and the ASTE Telescope in Chile, a team led by Tomoharu Oka, a professor... at Keio University in Japan used both radio telescopes to observe this mysterious object...
10 February 2016
Igor Ashurbeyli Awarded UNESCO Medal
... Medal receipients for contributions to the development of nanoscience and nanotechnologies include Professor Isamu Akasaki (Japan), 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics, Professor emeritus of Nagoya University, Professor of Meijo University, Member of The...
