On the 18th of January the Japanese Space agency Jaxa launched it’s Epsilon 3 rocket to put a commercial planetary observational satellite into earth’s atmosphere.
While many other space missions are interested in Mars, The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is planning to investigate Phobos and Deimos.
An experimental Japanese mission to clear ‘space junk’ or rubbish from the Earth’s orbit has ended in failure, officials said Monday, in an embarassment for Tokyo.
The idea of a space elevator to lift us into orbit is one of the oldest concepts in sci-fi, but thanks to the efforts of scientists in Japan, we might soon be seeing this fantastic feat of engineering become a reality at last.
The worst fears of the astrophysics community came true today, as Japanese space telescope Hitomi (aka ASTRO-H) was officially declared dead.
