The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has released a new game called Lunarcraft to play in Minecraft that employs actual satellite data to create realistic moon landscapes. In 2007, a ...

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 ...

Shiro Kawakita, program manager at JAXA’s Satellite Applications and Operations Center, expressed strong optimism about the project, stating, “If we can assess the damage quickly, it will lead ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) was formed in 2003 after the merger of three government space organizations into one. JAXA is responsible for all civilian space activities in Japan ...

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 ...

Yasuo Ishii, senior vice president of JAXA, said at the Spacetide conference July 8 that commercial space station technologies will be among those included in the Space Strategic Fund. Credit ...

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will delay the maiden launch of its heavy-lift H3 rocket to Feb. 17 from Feb. 15 due to weather conditions, the space agency said on Tuesday.

“I hope that JAXA and NASA work together to make it happen.” Should there be some kind of replacement mission for Hitomi, it should be relatively straightforward to build another SXS instrument.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has awarded Japanese startup ArkEdge Space a contract to study the feasibility of establishing a constellation of positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) ...

TOKYO -- Japan's cabinet on Monday approved a bill to set up a 1 trillion yen ($6.7 billion) fund for JAXA, the country's space agency, as a way to catapult the country's private sector into the ...

JAXA is examining the failure to determine what went wrong. The last rocket launch failure was the H2A No. 6 rocket in 2003, the agency said.

The Japanese Space Angency (JAXA) in cooperation with the Japan Broadcast Company (NHK) have released an HDTV movie of a full Earthrise, as seen from the Moon. The Kaguya (Selene) Lunar Probe ...