Topic: Japan
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'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 ...
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.
Space elevators have been a scientific goal for several years. Now there are several competing models, including one from Japan .
Exploration of Mars and other planets continued apace, with the Red Planet being the target for several new orbiters and landers. The European Space Agency's (ESA's) Mars Express, which was launched on June 2 from Kazakhstan, went into Mars orbit on December ...
