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...
September 2017
Europe needs facility to handle extra-terrestrial space material
...NASA in the US, by Roscosmos in Russia and by JAXA in Japan. Europe is a main actor in space exploration but has lacked the...Johnson Space Center, Houston, or at JAXA, Sagamihara, Japan. Unrestricted or restricted samples The two facilities cited above...
November 2018
BepiColombo – a mission to explore Mercury
...joint mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), hopes to uncover the mysteries ...between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to study the planet...
23 March 2016
Could an encounter with a passing dark molecular cloud be responsible for killing off the dinosaurs?
... asteroid was responsible for the world-wide spread of this material. Now, however, a team of scientists based in Japan are suggesting that the crater impact at Chicxulub is not solely responsible for the KPg extinction event...
February 2020
Aeroshells – from LEO to Mars
...to address this, the MAAC research and development group, a Japan-based cross-university team, is hard at work developing new... turn of the millennium as a partnership between the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the University of Tokyo and...
July 2021
Collaboration and competition in lunar exploration
... through the European Space Agency (ESA); China, Japan, Canada and India. Emerging space programmes, such ...has established partnerships with agencies in Europe, Australia, Canada, Japan and UAE with a current emphasis on the Artemis programme....
