When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Japanese space program - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_space_program

    Japanese space law was amended in 2008 to allow the deployment of military satellites for reconnaissance and missile defense only. Some of the budget was diverted from the scientific space exploration budget for these plans, which put pressure on other technologies. [23] The biggest success in recent years was the Hayabusa sample

  3. Category:Space program of Japan - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Space_program_of...

    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Space program of Japan" ... Japanese space program * JAXA; A. Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and ...

  4. JAXA - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAXA

    In 2003, JAXA was formed by merging Japan's three space agencies to streamline Japan's space program, and JAXA took over operations of the H-IIA liquid-fueled launch vehicle, the M-V solid-fuel launch vehicle, and several observation rockets from each agency. The H-IIA is a launch vehicle that improved reliability while reducing costs by making ...

  5. Category:Space programs by country - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Space_programs_by...

    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Space program of the People's Republic of China ... Pages in category "Space programs by country"

  6. Ohsumi (satellite) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohsumi_(satellite)

    With the successful launch of Ohsumi, Japan became the fourth country after the Soviet Union, United States, and France to independently launch a satellite into space. [ 6 ] [ 8 ] An elliptical orbital path was achieved, straying from the original 500-km circular intended path. [ 10 ]

  7. Japan's Space One Kairos rocket fails minutes after liftoff - AOL

    www.aol.com/news/japans-space-one-says-kairos...

    TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's Space One terminated the flight of its Kairos small rocket shortly after liftoff on Wednesday, marking the end of its second attempt in nine months to become the country's ...

  8. Japanese Lunar Exploration Program - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Lunar_Exploration...

    The (Japanese) Lunar Exploration Program (Japanese: 月探査計画, romanized: tsuki tansa keikaku) is a program of robotic and human missions to the Moon undertaken by the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and its division, the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS).

  9. HOPE-X - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOPE-X

    HOPE (H-II Orbiting Plane) was a Japanese experimental spaceplane project designed by a partnership between NASDA and NAL (both now part of JAXA), started in the 1980s.It was positioned for most of its lifetime as one of the main Japanese contributions to the International Space Station, the other being the Japanese Experiment Module.