Japan has launched a navigation satellite on its flagship H3 rocket as the country seeks to have a precise positioning system ...

JAXA small lunar landing demonstrator "SLIM ". Watch how it travels to the moon's surface in this animated explainer. Credit: ...

Among them was LignoSat, a wooden satellite from JAXA (Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency) that investigates the use of wood in space. Findings could offer a more sustainable alternative to ...

The Asahi Shimbun reported June 21 that more than 10,000 files of information, including classified material, were targeted in a cyberattack on JAXA in June last year. Of those files, more than ...

Iconic actress Tina Jaxa has allegedly been cast to star in a historic series. The show is centred around the Kingdom of ...

I want to contribute to the developments in space, which is in a period of transition." In the JAXA announcement, Norishige Kanai, the head of the astronauts group at JAXA, said, “I’m truly ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, has said it expects the program to help enable immediate rescue operations in areas struck by disasters. JAXA researchers plan to have the system ...

During the Noto Peninsula earthquake that struck on Jan. 1 last year, JAXA's advanced land observation satellite, Daichi-2, conducted emergency observations from the same night. While the ...

JAXA broadcast the launch of the first Epsilon Launch Vehicle (Epsilon-1) with the Spectroscopic Planet Observatory for Recognition of Interaction of Atmosphere (SPRINT-A) onboard from the Uchinoura ...

The mission launched in October 2018 as a joint venture between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), each providing an orbiter to explore Mercury.

In anticipation of the Artemis Project ( 2 ), an international lunar exploration program, the research partners aim to ...