07 May 2018
Smallest rocket by Jaxa sets a Guiness World record
... and a half minutes after liftoff, making it one of the fastest entries into space ever performed. The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency will no doubt be delighted with the launch as last year’s inaugural test flight of the SS-520-5 crashed into...
March 2015
JAXA’s challenge to climate change
...panel on the Ibuki satellite. ‘Ibuki’ means breath in Japanese Why do we measure rainfall with radar? Rain is a ... cycle GSMaP is currently used by meteorological agencies, water resource management agencies, and climate researchers around the world. ...
04 December 2020
Asteroid sample from Hayabusa2 to land on Earth 6 December
... and when plotted on a map, the intersection will reveal the position of the signal source,” say the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). If for some unforeseen reason the capsule cannot be located, the team hope that the capsule...
05 July 2019
JAXA, DLR to cooperate on Martian moons mission
...Japanese Space agency want to do things a little differently. Instead of touching down on either of our nearest celestial neighbours, JAXA, along with help from German Aerospace... technically feasible in robotic exploration and expand our knowledge ...
June 2014
Is there a space race or are India and China just coming of age?
... leaders in Asian spaceflight, and started launching satellites to study comets in the 1980's. In 2003 the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the Hayabusa probe, which successfully rendezvoused with the asteroid 25143 Itokawa and...
August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
... Scout) lander. Developed together with the French space agency (CNES) and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), this landing system is expected to descend from the Japanese Hayabusa 2 spacecraft onto the asteroid Ryugu (formerly 1999...
