Japan has launched a navigation satellite on its flagship H3 rocket as the country seeks to have a precise positioning system ...

Japan launched a navigation satellite early Sunday morning (Feb. 2), the nation's first liftoff of 2025. An H3 rocket ...

Among them was LignoSat, a wooden satellite from JAXA (Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency) that investigates the use of wood in space. Findings could offer a more sustainable alternative to ...

LignoSat, the world's first wooden satellite, launched to the ISS on Nov. 5 last year aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It was deployed from the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's ( JAXA) Kibo ...

TANEGASHIMA, Kagoshima Prefecture--The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) turned to a tried-and ... the X-ray astronomy satellite XRISM was placed in orbit, and 33 minutes later, the ...

Japan’s space agency said Friday its planned launch this weekend of a satellite on its new flagship ... The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, said it is postponing the launch because ...

or JAXA. Officials said it is expected to reach its targeted geospatial orbit in about two weeks. Japan currently has the quasi-zenith satellite system, or QZSS, with four satellites for a ...

Everything so far has been as planned, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, said. Japan currently has the quasi-zenith satellite system, or QZSS, with four satellites for a regional ...