Artist's rendition of ispace's Mission 3 APEX 1.0 lunar lander on the moon. (Image credit: ispace) By Josh Dinner, Published by Space.com, 11 December 2024 Both companies share a vision of "non-destructive, sustainable harvesting" on the moon. Space mining is inching closer to reality with the latest agreement between Japanese lunar
By Gabriel Honrada, Published by Asia Times, 9 December 2024 US-Japan joint military space unit reflects evolving modern warfare as opposed Cold War 2.0 blocs increasingly reach for the stars The US Space Force (USSF) has activated a unit in Japan, marking a significant bilateral leap in countering rising threats
A fireball erupts during an engine test of an Epsilon S rocket at the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture on Nov. 26. (Captured from JAXA’s live footage) By Ryo Sasaki, Published by The Asahi Shimbun, 26 November 2024 TANEGASHIMA, Kagoshima Prefecture--Japan’s space agency halted an engine combustion test of its
Image: Screen grab from euronews video By Euronews with AP, Published 13 March 2024 Japan's Space One Kairos rocket exploded after lift-off, leaving a plume of smoke, fire and fragments of machinery in its wake. A rocket touted as Japan’s first from the private sector to go into orbit exploded
Pale Blue is developing a water-fueled Hall-effect thruster for 100 to 500-kilogram satellites. Credit: Pale Blue By Jason Rainbow, Publishd by Space News, 7 February 2024 TAMPA, Fla. — Japan has awarded Tokyo-based small satellite thruster developer Pale Blue a grant worth up to $27 million to upgrade its water-based propulsion technology
By Magdalena Petrova, Published by CNBC, 20 January 2024 Japan recently became the fifth nation to successfully complete a soft landing on the moon’s surface, joining a select few countries — the U.S., Russia, China and India — in accomplishing this feat. But moon landings are likely to become more common over
Osaka-based startup, plans to develop a ground-based laser system to help knock out space junk (Interesting Engineering). By Christopher McFadden, Published by Interesting Engineering, 15 January 2024 To combat the issue of space debris, Australia's EOS Space and Japan's EX-Fusion will develop a laser system to remove it from Earth's
A Mitsubishi Heavy Industries H-2A rocket lifts off from Tanegashima Space Center carrying Japan's IGS Optical 8 reconnaissance satellite. (Image credit: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries via X) By Mike Wall, Published by Space.com, 12 January 2024 The IGS Optical 8 satellite lifted off atop an H-2A rocket on Thursday night (Jan.
