April 2024
The promise of solar energy for sustainable development and space exploration
.... Since the end of the 1960s, the United States and, subsequently, other countries such as China and Japan, have been interested in harnessing solar energy in outer space and transmitting it efficiently to Earth. According to a definition provided...
04 December 2020
Asteroid sample from Hayabusa2 to land on Earth 6 December
...completing a round-trip of approximately 5.2 billion kilometres, Japan’s asteroid sample-return mission – Hayabuya2 – will ...according to plan, Yuichi Tsuda, project manager at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), said at a recent briefing...
November 2016
Hi-tech greenhouse to test plant cultivation technologies in Antarctica
... EDEN ISS scientific advisory board consists of the top scientists in the field of CEA from Russia, USA, Japan, Italy and Germany. Objectives Due to the necessity of validating key technologies for space greenhouses under mission...
February 2017
UN strategy lifts capacity for non-spacefaring countries
... number of other projects under the HSTI that complement the SNC partnership. KiboCUBE, an initiative with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), offers educational and research institutions from developing countries the opportunity to deploy...
September 2017
Australia’s ambitious home-grown space industry
... collaboration among companies and research organisations, and dialogue established with the space industries of China and Japan, and with JAXA, the Japanese space agency. France and SA have also discussed space sector collaboration...
January 2022
International cooperation - the key to survival on Earth and in space
... first European commander of the ISS. One of his tasks was to operate the Station’s robotic arm to dock Japan’s first H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV). After his mission, he chaired the technical committee of the second EU-ESA Space...
