Topic: Japan
There is no room for romance on board the cosy confines of the International Space Station, a NASA space shuttle commander said Monday when asked what would happen if astronauts had sex in space."We are a group of professionals," said Space Shuttle ...
The heart-warming story of the Hayabusa spacecraft, which overcame failed engines, degraded solar panels, fuel leaks, and faulty communications to touch down on asteroid Itokawa and return to Earth, has captured the imagination of the Japanese public. Hayabusa's most important fan, however, ...
A capsule that scientists hope will contain a little slice of outer space after a seven-year journey across the solar system was being recovered Monday from the Australian Outback, officials said.The pod, which was ejected from a Japanese space probe as it ...
It's sink or sail time for Japan's IKAROS spacecraft, and according to initial reports from JAXA the unfurling of the first solar sail deployed for actual deep space travel went off without a hitch.. IKAROS (Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation Of the ...
A spacecraft built by students has been launched towards another planet for the first time, but it has fallen ominously silent.. The toaster-oven-sized cube called UNITEC-1 was launched towards Venus on 21 May. It hitched a ride on the same rocket that ...
"It" is putting a spacecraft in orbit around Venus.. Officials from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) report, albeit briefly, that so far everything is going smoothly. Akatsuki means "dawn" or "daybreak," which is where you'll find Venus in early December when ...
NASA's Mars Pathfinder rover, Sojourner and Russia's Lunokhod 1 are autonomous robotic vehicles.. NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 to Jupiter and beyond are an example of flyby probes. NASA's Mariner 9 in 1971 entered Mars orbit and studied it extensively for nearly ...
A Japanese rocket blasted off early Friday and successfully launched a Venus probe and a kite-shaped "space yacht" designed to float through the cosmos using only the power of the sun.The launch vehicle, the H-IIA rocket, took off from the Tanegashima space ...
Japan launches satellite for 2-year study of Venus climateJapan launched a new spacecraft Friday on a two-year mission to study the planet Venus and its climate.A rocket carrying the Venus climate orbiter called "Akatsuki" blasted off from a Japanese space center in ...
A Japanese rocket blasted off early Friday carrying a Venus probe and a kite-shaped "space yacht" designed to float through the cosmos using only the power of the sun.The launch vehicle, the H-IIA rocket, took off from the Tanegashima space centre in ...
