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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Japan aims to toughen up its cybersecurity
In May it was reported in the Japanese press that between 2017 and 2019 the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) was a target ... via (presumably digital) research databases.
Japanese partner explains why Vietnam's NanoDragon satellite has yet to launch
According to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the launch of the Epsilon 5 rocket carrying ... The NanoDragon satellite is the product of the Project "Research, design, manufacture, ...
Asteroid Samples Leave Japan Scientists ‘Speechless’
This photo provided by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), shows soil samples ... a sample-return mission they praised as a milestone for planetary research.(JAXA via AP) TOKYO (AFP) — ...
First images of Mercury captured by joint European and Japanese spacecraft
The joint mission by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) was launched in ... since the very first years of my research career, and I am eager to ...
Japan’s Epsilon scrubs another attempt to launch RAISE-2 and eight secondary satellites
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA’s ... is the second in a series of small satellite missions that JAXA is sponsoring to research and develop systems and technologies for future ...

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This New Rocket Engine Uses Shock Waves As Propellant - Interesting Engineering
September 16, 2021
Rocket Lab to launch space junk inspection mission for JAXA - New Atlas
September 21, 2021
Japan's Epsilon scrubs another attempt to launch RAISE-2 and eight secondary satellites - NASASpaceFlight.com - NASASpaceflight.com
October 6, 2021
BepiColombo snaps its first images of Mercury - Astronomy Magazine
October 8, 2021
Spacecraft reaches innermost planet of solar system – Mercury - The Siasat Daily
October 12, 2021

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JAXA: Soil from asteroid shows it has ingredients for creating life
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency announced the discovery on June 17 at a news ... result of an initial analysis of the soil samples. JAXA has cataloged the soil samples brought back by ...
Fly by Mercury with this stunning new video from the BepiColombo spacecraft
European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) scientists are still ... Mercury's magnetic field was a surprise discovery made by NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft, which ...
Vietnam’s NanoDragon satellite set to enter orbit on October 7
The launch is slated to take place from 7:51.21 am to 7:55.16 am (Hanoi time), according to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The Epsilon 5 rocket on a launch pad. “Made in Vietnam” ...
A European-Japanese spacecraft snapped the clearest photo of Mercury in 6 years as it flew past the planet
The spacecraft is a joint mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). It's on track to fall into orbit around Mercury in 2025, when it will map the ...
ESA Astronaut Takes Space Station Command
transitioned on Oct. 4 from Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Thomas Pesquet. Pesquet is the first native of France to hold ...