January 2019
Visiting an asteroid to find out how life began
...Ryugu was like hitting a 6 cm target in Brazil from Japan. But it is not the precise navigation that makes this ...the remoteness of deep space. Ion engines are a speciality of Japan’s space agency, JAXA. The predecessor to Hayabusa2 - the spacecraft...
08 February 2016
Japan’s Astro-H mission due to launch on February 12, 2016
... in a series of highly successful X-ray astronomy missions initiated by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and is due to be launched from the Tanegashima Space Center, aboard an H-IIA...
06 May 2019
Japan's first private rocket launches successfully
... the company's test site in the town of Taiki on Japan's northern main island of Hokkaido and flew for about 10 ...rockets) in quick cycles,” company founder Takafumi Horie told The Japan Times. This was the company’s third attempt at reaching space...
28 July 2021
Japan successfully tests rocket engine propelled by shock waves
Japan successfully tested a rocket engine that was propelled by shock waves... launch and landed in the sea southeast of Uchinoura about eight minutes later, Japan Times reports. JAXA later retrieved a capsule containing test data in nearby waters....
October 2015
Japan’s H-IIA rocket: beautiful, accurate, and on-time
... to an unprecedented level internationally. The technologies developed are poised for deployment to customers all over the world. Japan will spare no effort to upgrade both the reliability and the user-friendliness of its space transportation systems...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
... the overflight of a Taepo Dong missile from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) in 1998, after which Japan began a substantial investment in what were called Intelligence Gathering Satellites (IGS), pairs of optical and radar satellites...
