Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) (National Research and Development Agency on Aerospace Research and Development) is the Japanese national aerospace and space agency

Monitoring ocean carbon via satellite

Satellites now play a key role in monitoring carbon levels in the oceans, but we are only just beginning to understand their full potential. Our ability to predict future climate relies upon being able to monitor where our carbon emissions go. So we need to know how much stays in the atmosphere, or becomes stored

Monitoring ocean carbon via satellite

Japan space scientists make wireless energy breakthrough

Japanese scientists have succeeded in transmitting energy wirelessly, in a key step that could one day make solar power generation in space a possibility, an official said Thursday. Researchers used microwaves to deliver 1.8 kilowatts of power—enough to run an electric kettle—through the air with pinpoint accuracy to a receiver 55 metres (170 feet) away.

Japan space scientists make wireless energy breakthrough

Intercepting asteroids to avoid Armageddon

One solution would be to launch a relatively solid space probe designed to hit the asteroid at high speed It sounds like the script for a Hollywood film: a giant meteorite from outer space heading straight for the Earth and threatening the destruction of mankind. And yet such a scenario does represent a real threat

Intercepting asteroids to avoid Armageddon

How to avert Armageddon

WORRYING about the threats posed by space rocks has traditionally been the preserve of the paranoid. No one doubts that asteroids have hit Earth in the past, with nastyconsequences, but because the chances of any such event happening in a given year are so low, most people have been content to ignore the risk. Today, however, a meteor

How to avert Armageddon

Creating a Coating of Water-Repellent Microscopic Particles to Keep Ice Off Airplanes

To help planes fly safely through cold, wet, and icy conditions, a team of Japanese scientists has developed a new super water-repellent surface that can prevent ice from forming in these harsh atmospheric conditions. Unlike current inflight anti-icing techniques, the researchers envision applying this new anti-icing method to an entire aircraft like a coat of

Creating a Coating of Water-Repellent Microscopic Particles to Keep Ice Off Airplanes

Controversy Flares Over Space-Based Solar Power Plans

“Nothing can compete with coal.” Space solar power advocates may soon get their day in the sun, as different projects aimed at beaming energy to Earth from orbit begin to take shape. But at least one space power scientist worries that a U.S.-based project may be promising too much, too soon. Last week, California regulators

Controversy Flares Over Space-Based Solar Power Plans

The Ultimate Science Fair

Lenovo And YouTube Announce Space Lab When I was just a wee pupil, an excellent science fair project didn’t get you much. At best, you walked away with a blue ribbon and the satisfaction of knowing your paper mache volcano was better than your friends’. These days, a great science project can win you much

The Ultimate Science Fair

Sail E-way: Spacecraft Riding the Solar Wind on Electric-Field Sails Could Cruise at 180,000 Kph

An effective sail area that is as much as a million times bigger A sail formed not of material, but by electric fields reaching a diameter of 40 kilometers could tap the solar wind and propel the fastest man-made object ever It takes large quantities of rocket fuel to power space probes through the cosmos.

Sail E-way: Spacecraft Riding the Solar Wind on Electric-Field Sails Could Cruise at 180,000 Kph

Japan unfurls Ikaros solar sail in space

Japanese scientists are celebrating the successful deployment of their solar sail, Ikaros. The 200-sq-m (2,100-sq-ft) membrane is attached to a small disc-shaped spacecraft that was put in orbit last month by an H-IIA rocket. Ikaros will demonstrate the principle of using sunlight as a simple and efficient means of propulsion. The technique has long been

Japan unfurls Ikaros solar sail in space

Space Sailing

After lots of talk and testing, Japanese researchers are ready to go space sailing. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced its intention to launch its first “space yacht” propelled by solar sails into the heavens on May 18. Ikaros — the Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation of the Sun — will cruise through the solar

Space Sailing

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JAXA team falsified data on research about long space stay
Japan’s space agency announced Nov. 25 that data was falsified on a research project headed by astronaut Satoshi Furukawa simulating the effects of a prolonged stay in space, but said it was ...
NASA/JAXA’s Long-Running Geotail Mission Ends
Artist's concept of Geotail. Credit: NASA The long-running joint NASA/Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Geotail mission to characterize the structure and dynamics of the Earth’s magnetic ...
30-year-old mission to study the magnetosphere comes to a close
A 30-year-old NASA-Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) mission has come to an end with the closing of operations on the Geotail satellite. Launched in July 1992, Geotail was designed to ...
Honda To Build Prototype For Lunar Circulative Renewable Energy System
Honda sees application for renewable energy technology on the Moon. Credit: Honda Honda has won a research and development contract from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to build a ...
Japan's space agency unveils moonscape venue for astronauts' final exam
(Mainichi/Yurika Tarumi)=Click/tap photo for more images. SAGAMIHARA, Kanagawa -- The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) unveiled one of the venues for the final stage of its new astronaut ...

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Japan begins busy year with classified IGS-Radar 7 launch
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Mitsubishi Industries have conducted the nation’s first orbital flight of 2023. The mission saw an H-IIA rocket carry the classified IGS-7 radar ...
JAXA team falsified data on research about long space stay
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency explained that “inappropriate ... falsifying and rewriting data,” said Hiroshi Sasaki, a JAXA vice president who heads the Human Spaceflight Technology ...
UPLB student's 'zero-gravity experiment' performed on Int'l Space Station —PhilSA
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Dr. Koichi Wakata performed William Kevin Abran's proposal on the behavior of rotating dumbbell-shaped objects in space. Abran, who is an ...
This Week in Spaceflight: Rocket Lab Attempts First U.S. Launch, SpaceX Starship Test, and More
Rocket Lab, SpaceX, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) are all planning to perform ... furthering the cause of exploration and discovery,” including the crews of Apollo 1 and ...
Japan’s space agency deploys battery storage system at ground station in Nagano
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has deployed a new backup battery system at a ground station site in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. NGK Insulators said the NAS batteries were deployed at the ...