Its "Moon Sniper" mission settled onto the moon's surface Friday morning. But JAXA, the Japanese space agency, says that while the lander is communicating with Earth, it's not getting power from ...

This was a clue: Just 15 minutes from the station lies the main campus of Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), an arm of the Japan Space Exploration Agency (JAXA). It's not space ...

With Chandra's fate uncertain, XRISM carries the hopes of X-ray astronomers across the globe — but a technical issue is holding it back from achieving its full potential. Just outside Hiroya ...

The CZ-3B/E Y110 flew on an eastbound path and launched Tianwen-2 on an Earth escape trajectory. Tianwen-2 will orbit ...

JAXA small lunar landing demonstrator "SLIM ". Watch how it travels to the moon's surface in this animated explainer. Credit: JAXA ...

Isro and Jaxa convened in Bengaluru for the TIM-3 meeting, advancing the Chandrayaan-5/Lupex mission. Discussions encompassed landing site selection, ...

The Japanese space agency JAXA is studying use of inflatable aeroshells to enable landings of small Mars rovers. Credit: ISAS/JAXA WASHINGTON — An institute in Japan’s space agency is pursuing ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has selected Spirent Communications to supply its lunar positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) simulation solution. The solution will support JAXA’s ...

Shiro Kawakita, program manager at JAXA’s Satellite Applications and Operations Center, expressed strong optimism about the project, stating, “If we can assess the damage quickly, it will lead ...

In other words, while NASA, ESA, and JAXA work away on their separate projects for now, they plan to ultimately merge those ideas into a single operating system. The detailed plans for ESA’s ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has awarded Japanese startup ArkEdge Space a contract to study the feasibility of establishing a constellation of positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) ...

GITAI Japan Inc., has been awarded a contract by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to conduct a concept study for a robotic arm system intended for use on a pressurized crewed lunar rover.