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Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency 宇宙航空研究開発機構 Uchū Kōkū Kenkyū Kaihatsu Kikō Agency overview Abbreviation JAXA (ジャクサ) Formed 1 October 2003 ; 21 years ago (2003-10-01) Preceding agencies NASDA ISAS NAL Type Space agency Jurisdiction Government of Japan Headquarters Chōfu, Tokyo, Japan Motto One JAXA Administrator Hiroshi Yamakawa [ja] Primary spaceport ...
After experiencing numerous failures in the 1990s and 2000s, ISAS and NASDA merged — along with the National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan (NAL) — to form the unified Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in 2003. In recent years, Japanese space policy has been shaped by the US-Japan alliance and intensifying great power competition. [1]
Hayabusa (Japanese: はやぶさ, "Peregrine falcon") was a robotic spacecraft developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to return a sample of material from a small near-Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa to Earth for further analysis.
The event will stream live on JAXA’s YouTube channel, offering a broadcast in both English and Japanese. The live stream will begin at 7:55 p.m. ET Sunday. The live stream will begin at 7:55 p.m ...
The Tsukuba Space Center (TKSC) also known by its radio callsign Tsukuba, is the operations facility and headquarters for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) located in Tsukuba Science City in Ibaraki Prefecture. The facility opened in 1972 and serves as the primary location for Japan's space operations and research programs.
JAXA says that it considers its central mission to have succeeded – but spacecraft is gradually losing power on the Moon ... The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) did not know exactly ...
Kakuda Space Center (角田宇宙センター, Kakuda Uchu Sentaa) is a facility of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), located in the city of Kakuda in Miyagi Prefecture in northern Japan, specializing in the development and testing of rocket engines and space propulsion systems.
IKAROS (Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation Of the Sun) is a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency experimental spacecraft.The spacecraft was launched on 20 May 2010, aboard an H-IIA rocket, together with the Akatsuki (Venus Climate Orbiter) probe and four other small spacecraft.