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• JAXA’s First Wooden Satellite Deploys from Space Station NASA · 7 Jan 2025 In December 2024, five CubeSats deployed into Earth’s orbit from the International Space Station. Among them was LignoSat, a wooden satellite from JAXA (Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency) that investigates the use of...
• BepiColombo to swing by Mercury for the sixth time ESA · 6 Jan 2025 On 8 January 2025, the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission will fly just 295 km above Mercury's surface, with a closest approach scheduled for 06:59 CET (05:59 UTC). It will use this opportunity to photograph Mercury, make uniq...
• NASA, JAXA XRISM Mission Looks Deeply Into ‘Hidden’ Stellar System NASA · 25 Nov 2024 The Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) observatory has captured the most detailed portrait yet of gases flowing within Cygnus X-3, one of the most studied sources in the X-ray sky. Cygnus X-3 is a b...
• ESA and JAXA sign statement on expanding deep space cooperation SpaceNews · 21 Nov 2024 BREMEN, Germany — The European and Japanese space agencies have issued a joint statement on furthering cooperation on planetary defense, the moon, Mars and beyond. JAXA President Hiroshi Yamakawa and […]
• JAXA Confirms Inaugural Callisto Flight Test Has Slipped to 2026 European Spaceflight · 30 Oct 2024 Japan’s national space agency, JAXA has confirmed that the inaugural test flight of the Callisto reusable rocket demonstrator has slipped to 2026. The Cooperative Action Leading to Launcher Innovation in Stage Toss-back...
• ArkEdge Space wins JAXA position, navigation and timing contract SpaceNews · 17 Oct 2024 MILAN — Japanese startup ArkEdge Space won a contract from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency JAXA to study the feasibility of establishing a constellation of position, navigation and timing satellites
• Scientists use data from BepiColombo flyby to discover features within Mercury’s magnetosphere NASASpaceflight · 6 Oct 2024 In June 2023, the joint European Space Agency (ESA) and Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) BepiColombo mission performed a flyby of its target planet — Mercury. During the flyby, the spacecraft experienced a va...
• GPM Celebrates Ten Years of Observing Precipitation for Science and Society NASA · 3 Oct 2024 Introduction On February 27, 2014, the four-ton Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory (CO) spacecraft launched aboard a Japanese H-IIA rocket from Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan. On that day...
• One year into mission, XRISM reveals movements of cosmic material around supernova remnant and black hole NASASpaceflight · 29 Sep 2024 In September 2023, the joint Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), European Space Agency (ESA), and NASA X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) telescope launched into low-Earth orbit atop a Japanese H-IIA r...
• Station Science Top News: September 13, 2024 NASA · 16 Sep 2024 JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) researchers examined the structures of four titanium-based compounds solidified in levitators in microgravity and on the ground and found that the internal microstructures were g...
• Fly over Mercury with BepiColombo ESA · 13 Sep 2024 See Mercury in a whole new light, through the ‘eyes’ of the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft, as it sped past Mercury during its latest encounter on 4 September 2024.
• BepiColombo’s fourth Mercury flyby: the movie ESA · 13 Sep 2024 Watch the closest flyby of a planet ever, as the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft sped past Mercury during its latest encounter on 4 September 2024.
• 15 Years Ago: Japan launches HTV-1, its First Resupply Mission to the Space Station NASA · 10 Sep 2024 On Sept. 10, 2009, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched its first cargo delivery spacecraft, the H-II Transfer Vehicle-1 (HTV-1), to the International Space Station. The HTV cargo vehicles, also called...
• BepiColombo's best images yet highlight fourth Mercury flyby ESA · 5 Sep 2024 The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has successfully completed its fourth of six gravity assist flybys at Mercury, capturing images of two special impact craters as it uses the little planet’s gravity to steer itself on cou...
• Fourth Mercury flyby begins BepiColombo’s new trajectory ESA · 2 Sep 2024 Teams from across ESA and industry have worked continuously over the past four months to overcome a glitch that prevented BepiColombo’s thrusters from operating at full power. The ESA/JAXA mission is still on track, with...
• NASA Shares Asteroid Bennu Sample in Exchange with JAXA NASA · 23 Aug 2024 As part of an asteroid sample exchange, NASA has transferred to JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) a portion of the asteroid Bennu sample collected by the agency’s OSIRIS-REx mission. The sample was officially han...
• Astroscale finalizes contract for Japanese debris removal mission SpaceNews · 21 Aug 2024 Astroscale has finalized a contract with the Japanese space agency JAXA for a mission to remove a defunct upper stage from Earth orbit.
• NASA Shares its SpaceX Crew-10 Assignments for Space Station Mission NASA · 1 Aug 2024 As part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission, four crew members are preparing to launch for a long-duration stay aboard the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Commander Anne McClain and Pilot Nichole Ayers, JAXA (J...
• Has the Inaugural Callisto Test Flight Slipped to 2026? European Spaceflight · 1 Aug 2024 The French space agency CNES has revealed that the inaugural test flight of its Callisto reusable rocket demonstrator will not take place until late 2025 or early 2026. Conceived in 2015, the Cooperative Action Leading t...
• NASA, JAXA Bounce Laser Beam Between Moon’s Surface and Lunar Orbit NASA · 29 Jul 2024 NASA’s LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) has twice transmitted a laser pulse to a cookie-sized retroreflector aboard JAXA’s (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) SLIM lander on the Moon and received a return signal. As L...
• JAXA to support work on commercial space station technologies SpaceNews · 8 Jul 2024 Japan’s space agency is seeking industry proposals for technologies that could contribute to future commercial space stations as the government studies what role it would play in supporting efforts to replace the Interna...
• SLIM Sleeps in this Month SpacePolicyOnline.com · 29 May 2024 Japan’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon did not wake up when JAXA sent a signal yesterday (EDT). The sturdy lander has surprised everyone by continuing to operate after repeated long,
• SpaceX has launched the EarthCARE climate research satellite for ESA and JAXA NASASpaceflight · 28 May 2024 The joint European-Japanese EarthCARE satellite has begun its mission to improve our understanding of Earth’s climate Tuesday, with a launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at...
• NASA and JAXA Resolve to Continue XRISM Operations Despite Instrument Issue The Launch Pad · 13 May 2024 NASA and JAXA Resolve to Continue XRISM Operations Despite Instrument Issue
• NASA and JAXA to operate XRISM as-is despite instrument issue SpaceNews · 13 May 2024 NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA plan to operate an instrument on an X-ray astronomy satellite as-is for at least the next year and a half despite an issue affecting one of its instruments.
• Hayabusa2 samples reveal the effects of space weathering on asteroid Ryugu NASASpaceflight · 3 May 2024 Using samples collected by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) asteroid explorer Hayabusa2, scientists have found the effects of micrometeoroid bombardments on asteroid 162173 Ryugu. The team used a technique cal...
• JAXA selects Interstellar Technologies as priority launch provider SpaceNews · 28 Mar 2024 Japan’s space agency has selected startup Interstellar Technologies as a priority launch provider as part of a program to advance the commercialization of space.
• Crew-7 and Endurance return to Earth after a six-month ISS stay NASASpaceflight · 11 Mar 2024 Crew Dragon Endurance and the Crew-7 astronauts returned to Earth after the handover to the Crew-8 astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS). Spacecraft commander and US Marine Corps Lt. Col Jasmin Moghbeli, pi...
• H3 Returns to Flight, Achieves Milestones Space Scout · 20 Feb 2024 Following a failure with the second stage engine in March 2023 during its maiden flight, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) successfully launched its second H3 rocket on January 16th, 2024. The vehicle lift...
• Japan Scores Success On Second H3 Launch SpacePolicyOnline.com · 17 Feb 2024 The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries succeeded in launching the new H3 rocket today almost a year after the first attempt failed. H3 will replace Japan’s existing
• JAXA reaches orbit on the second launch of H3 NASASpaceflight · 16 Feb 2024 Japan’s H3 rocket made a second attempt to reach orbit on Saturday, 11 months after it failed during its maiden flight. The rocket successfully sent a mass simulator and two small satellites to the same 669-kilometer Sun...
• The Sun Sets on SLIM – What Next? Space Scout · 13 Feb 2024 After a troubled journey to the lunar surface and subsequent recovery, the sun has set on JAXA’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) at 1:57 PM, February 1st, Japan Standard Time. Officially, SLIM has entered a do...
• IDEFIX Phobos rover sent to Japan ahead of mission to Mars NASASpaceflight · 12 Feb 2024 The Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission is JAXA’s lead mission that plans to survey and explore Mars’ two moons, Phobos and Deimos. While the Japanese agency will build the main payload, the German Space Agency (DLR)...
• Launch Roundup: Falcon 9’s 300th Flight and SpaceX to launch lunar lander NASASpaceflight · 6 Feb 2024 On the week of the sixth anniversary of the first flight of Falcon Heavy, SpaceX looks to launch five separate Falcon 9 missions. Meanwhile, JAXA is preparing for the second flight of the H3 rocket after its unsuccessful...
• Good night, SLIM SpacePolicyOnline.com · 1 Feb 2024 Lunar night has descended on JAXA’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, in the Shioli crater on the Moon. For the next 14 Earth days, temperatures will drop below
• JAXA’s SLIM is Back To Work on the Moon SpacePolicyOnline.com · 30 Jan 2024 JAXA’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, has resumed operations on the lunar surface. SLIM landed upside down because of an engine failure leaving the solar cells pointing in
• JAXA’s SLIM Literally Lost An Engine, and NASA’s LRO Spots SLIM on the Surface SpacePolicyOnline.com · 26 Jan 2024 A NASA spacecraft orbiting the Moon has spotted JAXA’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, that landed on the surface last week. The lander already was imaged much more
• Japan’s SLIM Lunar Lander Notches More Successes SpacePolicyOnline.com · 25 Jan 2024 The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency confirmed today that the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, achieved its primary objective of demonstrating pinpoint landing accuracy. By JAXA’s criteria, that alone
• Japan’s SLIM achieved pinpoint moon landing with just one working engine SpaceNews · 25 Jan 2024 Japan’s SLIM lander achieved its goal of an accurate moon landing moon with only one of two main thrusters operating, JAXA stated Thursday.
• Japan Becomes Fifth Nation to Land on the Moon Space Scout · 19 Jan 2024 On January 19th 2024, JAXA’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) successfully touched down on the surface of the Moon. This makes Japan the fifth nation in history to conduct a successful soft landing on the surfa...