19 December 2016
JAXA signs an agreement for the development and creation of a lunar mining industry
...a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and marks the beginning of Japan’s first concrete action for the development and creation of the space..., as part of the 20-year implementation schedule for Japan’s Basic Plan on Space Policy. “With strong support...
14 February 2020
Astrocale and JAXA team up for the agency's first debris removal project
...for this collaborative mission with JAXA,” said Nobu Okada, Founder & CEO of Astroscale. “Several countries, including Japan, are taking action by funding missions which support the development of debris removal technologies, and we at Astroscale are...
March 2015
SERC wants us all to get to grips with space junk
... developments were enabled by investment through a Public Private Partnership (PPP) funding structure. SERC has research efforts in Japan and the USA, but the research is principally performed in Australia In 2012 it was proposed that the research...
July 2021
A shared vision for space exploration
.... Some of these were longstanding counterparts with a history of NASA collaboration on the International Space Station (ISS) such as Japan, Canada and Europe (ESA), while others were emerging partners with big ambitions, such as Luxembourg, Australia...
October 2023
Space architecture on Earth
...than 30 rocket launch sites worldwide For location, Japan’s island-based Tanegashima Space Center and China’s ...by fisherman, because their fishing - an important industry in Japan - was interrupted by range closures. Compromises were reached, but...
July 2014
The hypersonic grail: advances at DARPA, AFRL and beyond
... for future air transport, dubbed Hikari1, which comprises 16 partners, 12 of them in Europe and four in Japan. This research combines Japan’s long-standing efforts to develop the technology for supersonic and hypersonic airliners with Europe’s high...
