Japan successfully launches next-generation H3 rocket after failure last year
Tokyo, Japan Reuters Japan successfully launched its new H3 flagship rocket on Saturday, putting its space programme back on track after multiple setbacks including the failure of the rocket’s inaugural flight last year. The launch also marks a second straight win for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) after its lunar lander, SLIM, achieved a […]
Know It All: Moon landings
Japan recently became the fifth country to land a craft successfully on the Moon. DAVID ADAMS looks at some facts and figures about that and previous landings…
Essay: Japan is now the fifth country to land on the Moon – the technology used will lend itself to future lunar missions
International affairs scholar MARIEL BOROWTIZ, of the Georgia Institute of Technology, looks, in an article first published on The Conversation, at Japan’s achievement…
Japan’s SLIM Moon craft short on power after successful lunar landing
Tokyo, Japan Reuters Japan on Saturday became the fifth country to put a spacecraft on the Moon, but solar power issues threatened to cut short the nation’s mission to prove a “precision” landing technology and revitalise a space program that has suffered setbacks. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said its Smart Lander for Investigating […]
Japan counts down to precision ‘Moon sniper’ landing mission
Tokyo, Japan Reuters Japan aims to become the fifth country to put a spacecraft on the Moon when it attempts a precision landing on Friday, in what would be a boost for a space program that has suffered a wave of setbacks and been eclipsed by rival China. Dubbed the “Moon sniper”, the Japan Aerospace […]
Essay: BepiColombo’s first close-up pictures of Mercury’s surface hint at answers to the planet’s secrets
DAVID ROTHERY, professor of planetary geosciences at The Open University, looks – in an article first published on The Conversation – at the BepiColombo mission to Mercury and what its closest images yet have revealed…
Japan retrieves asteroid samples in hunt for origins of planets
Tokyo, Japan/Melbourne, AustraliaReuters Japan has retrieved a capsule of asteroid dust from Australia’s remote outback after a six-year mission that may help uncover more about the origins of the planets and water, the Asian nation’s space agency said on Sunday. The mission of the Japanese spacecraft, Hayabusa2, spotlights Asia’s growing role in space exploration, with […]
KNOW IT ALL: THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
DAVID ADAMS takes a look at some of the facts and figures behind the International Space Station (ISS)…