“Development of flagship rockets such as Epsilon S is extremely important from the perspective of ensuring autonomy of Japan’s space development,” Hayashi told reporters. “JAXA will ...

The rocket successfully reached orbit at an altitude of about 670 kilometers (about 420 miles) and released two satellites, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, said. “We feel so ...

The solid-fuel rocket lifted off from the Uchinoura Space Center in Kimotsuki, Kagoshima Prefecture, at around 9:50 a.m., JAXA said. About 10 minutes after the launch, however, JAXA officials ...

Automaker Mitsubishi has developed the H3 rocket for the Japanese space agency JAXA. Toyoda shared renderings of rocket designs while addressing CES attendees. Toyota's space partner Interstellar ...

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 ...

It will launch on a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center along with the JAXA Resilience (Hakuto M2) mission. SpaceX is preparing to ramp up Starship test launches this year, a push made by ...

Through JAXA’s Hayabusa 1 mission ... “While Japan has the capability of launching rockets and constructing spacecraft, we have many non-space industries such as chemical and material ...