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When NASA returns to the Moon, its astronauts will enjoy tooling around in a pressurized camper van courtesy of JAXA and Toyota. The two-person vehicle is part of a US/Japan agreement that includes putting the first Japanese astronauts on the Moon.Cont… Continue reading Japan to build NASA a pressurized Moon campervan for 30-day trips
Though it suffered through decades of naysayers, these days you’d be hard pressed to find anyone who would still argue that the commercialization of space has been anything but a …read more Continue reading Japan’s First Commercial Rocket Debuts With a Bang
Japan’s SLIM lunar lander is back online and transmitting data. JAXA has confirmed that the Sun has moved into a position where light is landing on the robotic spacecraft’s solar panel, allowing it to finally charge its battery.Continue ReadingCategory… Continue reading Japan’s SLIM Moon lander back on line thanks to sunshine
Thanks to a pair of tiny lunar rovers, the mystery of Japan’s crippled SLIM Moon lander has been solved. Images returned by the two robots show that the spacecraft bounced and is sitting on its nose, preventing its solar panels from charging.Continue R… Continue reading Mystery solved – Japan’s SLIM Moon probe landed on its nose
Japan has become the fifth nation to successfully land on the Moon, but the Champagne corks aren’t popping. At 10:20 am EST, the SLIM lander touched down, but the solar panels failed to engage, leaving the craft with only a few hours of battery power.C… Continue reading Japan lands on Moon, but lander may have only hours to live
In one small step for humankind, scientists have seen a fertilized mouse egg develop naturally and normally into early embryonic form. While a long way to go, it’s a positive sign that mammalian – namely, human – reproduction can take place in space.Co… Continue reading Mouse embryos successfully grown in space for the first time
It was second time lucky for Japan as it successfully launched its first lunar lander on September 6 at 23:42 GMT atop a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries H-IIA rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center 25 miles (40 km) south of Kyushu.Continue ReadingCategor… Continue reading Successful liftoff for Japan’s first lunar landing mission
At the Paris Air Show, the space agencies of France, Germany and Japan signed an agreement that will allow a robotic Franco-German rover aboard Japan’s Martian Moon eXploration (MMX) mission and land it on the surface of the Martian moon Phobos.Continu… Continue reading France, Germany, and Japan join forces for Martian moon rover mission
Researchers just can’t seem to keep their hands off asteroid Itokawa, and with good reason. Following on from the discovery of pyroxene, which contains water in its crystal structure, in a sample taken from the stony space mass, another team at the Uni… Continue reading Table salt found in asteroid shakes up how water surfaced on Earth
Samples taken from the near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu continue to provide scientists with important insights, this time about the potential beginnings of life on our planet.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: Space exploration, Hayabusa 2, … Continue reading Asteroid Ryugu provides clues about beginnings of life on Earth