Topic: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Japan's space agency is planning a mission to send a humanoid robot to space so that it can communicate with people on Earth through Twitter, an agency official said Thursday.The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) plans to carry out feasibility studies before ...
A Japanese rocket successfully took an unmanned cargo transporter to the International Space Station into orbit, according to Japan's space agency.The H-IIB rocket took off from the Tanegashima space centre in southern Japan on schedule at 2:37 pm (0537 GMT) on Saturday. ...
Despite its shoestring budget, Japan's space programme has boldly reached for the stars, pioneering solar-powered galactic travel, exploring a distant asteroid and planning a robot base on the Moon.The past year has seen Japan's space agency JAXA chalk up several world firsts, ...
Japanese probe of Venus fails to enter orbit, may have overshot the planetA Japanese probe sent on a two-year mission to Venus failed to enter orbit and may have flown passed the planet, space agency officials said Wednesday.The probe, called Akatsuki, which ...
An interplanetary probe intended to go into orbit around Venus has failed in its mission, Japan's space agency said Wednesday, 200 days after it left Earth."Akatsuki", or "Dawn", was intended to be the first Japanese satellite to orbit a planet other than ...
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 ...
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.
IT'S the trailblazer of solar sailing. Japan's IKAROS spacecraft has used "smart glass" technology to steer using only the pressure of sunlight - a first for solar sails. IKAROS launched in May and soon after became the first solar sail to be ...
Share | Japan's space agency said Monday it has found 'minute particles' of what it hopes is asteroid dust in the capsule of the space probe Hayabusa which returned to Earth last month.. "We have started the opening process of the sample ...
The Hayabusa spacecraft landed in the Australian outback on June 13, after a seven-year space journey. It is the hope of JAXA, Japan's space agency, that the capsule Hayabusa is carrying contains a sample taken from asteroid Itokawa. Now, the process of ...
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