“The bright patch near the planet’s upper edge in this ... consisting of ESA’s Mercury Planet Orbiter (MPO) and JAXA’s Mercury Magnetosphere Orbiter (MMO), launched together on a single ...
Japan's challenging mission to land on the moon successfully hit the tiny patch of the lunar surface ... Despite this, Shinichiro Sakai, the JAXA project manager, says he would give the pinpoint ...
After going through more rounds of training and final assessments, the pair will become the 12th and 13th people sent into space by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Yoneda could be ...
The solid-fuel rocket lifted off from the Uchinoura Space Center in Kimotsuki, Kagoshima Prefecture, at around 9:50 a.m., JAXA said. About 10 minutes after the launch, however, JAXA officials ...