TANEGASHIMA, Kagoshima Prefecture--The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA ... satellite XRISM was placed in orbit, and 33 minutes later, the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM ...

JAXA scientists are looking for evidence of material on the moon's surface that may have come from its mantle, a layer near the satellite's core.

Among them was LignoSat, a wooden satellite from JAXA (Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency) that investigates the use of wood in space. Findings could offer a more sustainable alternative to ...

Last month, a H-2A rocket successfully placed a spy satellite into its planned orbit, and days later JAXA’s unmanned spacecraft SLIM made the world’s first “pinpoint” moon landing then ...

The satellite ... constitutes the company’s second moon landing attempt following a 2023 failed mission. Partly funded by the Japanese space agency JAXA, the January mission will see ispace ...

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 ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched a lunar orbiter satellite, "Kaguya," on September ... It was injected into a polar orbit 100 km above the moon on October 18, 2007, and ...

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 module ...

“Takara–Tomy benefits by advertizing how these robots will be used on the Moon and from selling replicas, while JAXA benefits from gaining robots to explore the lunar surface,” he explains.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. This weekend, NASA launched a small satellite that will journey to the Moon and search ...