Topic: East Asia

Japan's first space probe bound for Venus was struggling on Tuesday to enter the planet's orbit, the space agency said.The Planet-C Venus Climate Orbiter, a box-shaped golden satellite fitted with two paddle-shaped solar panels, blasted off from a space centre in southern ...

Japan probe reaches Venus, prepares to enter orbit; mission could illuminate Earth's neighborA Japanese probe reached Venus on Tuesday and prepared to enter orbit on a two-year mission that would mark a major milestone for Japan's space program and could shed light ...

One Friday last November, the six astronauts onboard the International Space Station received an urgent warning from mission control: In October, just one week before the ISS scare, NASA delayed a return trip from the ISS of a Japanese craft when a ...

China orbited a military communications satellite Wednesday (Nov. 24) on a Long March rocket, continuing the country's busiest year of space launches since the Chinese space program dawned more than four decades ago. EST) Wednesday from the Xichang space base in southwestern ...

U.S.-Chinese cooperation in human spaceflight, while not necessary for either country to succeed in their endeavors, could yield astounding results, according to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden.. In October, Bolden led a U.S. delegation to China for high-level talks with Chinese space officials ...

US Institute: Satellite images show North Korea building light-water reactorA private American security institute says new satellite images and interviews with American experts show North Korea is constructing an experimental light-water nuclear reactor at its main Yongbyon atomic complex.The Washington-based Institute for ...

On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union's Sputnik I became the first man-made object to be placed in orbitan event that ushered in the space age.. The advent of the space age had a profound influence on education in the United States. ...

A Japanese spacecraft that touched down on a space rock during a billion-mile mission successfully returned the first ever samples from the surface of an asteroid, Japan's space agency said today (Nov. 16).. The samples are in the form of tiny dust ...

After a 7-year, 4-billion-kilometer roundtrip to touch down on asteroid Itokawa, Japan's Hayabusa spacecraft has returned to Earth. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced late in the afternoon today in Tokyo that the intact capsule had been retrieved. It will be ...

The Hayabusa asteroid sample return mission, once thought lost, is returning after all! But yesterday in Tokyo, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency announced that the sample recovery capsule will land in a remote quarter of Australia on 13 June.