Japan's flagship H3 rocket put a key component of Japan's satellite navigation program ... By March 2026, JAXA plans to launch one more H-2A and four H3 rockets. The H3 is set to become Japan's ...

When the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, was put into orbit around Earth, anyone in the path of the satellite could receive the beeps transmitted by the satellite provided they had some ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tokyo, Feb. 2 (Jiji Press)--The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, on Sunday successfully launched the fifth H3 rocket carrying the Michibiki No. 6 satellite for the Japanese version of ...

Here’s how it works. Rocket Lab launched five "Internet of Things" satellites on Saturday (Feb. 8). A 59-foot-tall (18 meters) Electron rocket carrying five spacecraft for the French company ...

JAXA is examining the failure to determine what went wrong. The last rocket launch failure was the H2A No. 6 rocket in 2003, the agency said. The eight satellites that were destroyed included ...

Japan plans to launch the Michibiki No. 6 navigation satellite as early as Feb. 1. Credit: JAXA If there was any doubt about how the cadence of space launches is skyrocketing globally, the early ...

"Chorus waves are now included in forecasting models that are designed to protect these satellites." Earth's magnetic field occasionally bursts into song — but these compositions are written ...

Tokyo-based startup ArkEdge Space claims it has snapped what is “probably” the highest quality images of Earth taken by a ...