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 ...

BepiColombo, a joint mission by ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA, will make its sixth flyby of Mercury in January 2025. This maneuver will help the spacecraft enter orbit ...

On Jan. 19, Japan's Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) made history when its Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) spacecraft reached the lunar surface. The mission was Japan's first ...

Partly funded by the Japanese space agency JAXA, the January mission will see ispace’s lander touch down near Mare Frigoris, a basaltic plain located in the moon’s northern hemisphere ...

Thales Alenia Space (TAS) has secured an 862 million euro contract to design and construct Argonaut, a European lander set for regular missions to the Moon ... Continue Reading → ...

Japan's space agency plans to use satellite images to quickly evaluate damage from earthquakes and other natural disasters. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, has said it expects the ...

(Photo courtesy of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's space agency plans to ... that struck on Jan. 1 last year, JAXA's advanced land observation satellite ...

BepiColombo is a joint mission by the ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Scientists built the spacecraft in the UK, and it launched in October 2018. This flyby marked the final ...