JAXA has previously succeeded in placing a probe on an asteroid. But the agency says putting a craft on the moon is much more difficult, as "the dynamics are completely different since the gravity ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has released a new game called Lunarcraft to play in Minecraft that employs actual satellite data to create realistic moon landscapes. In 2007, a ...

In December 2024, five CubeSats deployed into Earth's orbit from the International Space Station. Among them was LignoSat, a wooden satellite from JAXA (Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency) that ...

The developers plan to hand the satellite, made from magnolia wood and named LignoSat, to space agency JAXA next week. It will be sent into space on a SpaceX rocket from the Kennedy Space Center ...

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 ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) was formed in 2003 after the merger of three government space organizations into one. JAXA is responsible for all civilian space activities in Japan ...

NASA's LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) has twice transmitted a laser pulse to a cookie-sized retroreflector aboard JAXA's (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) SLIM lander on the moon and ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launched an X-ray satellite to study extreme cosmic objects and a lunar lander nicknamed the “Moon Sniper” on Wednesday evening.

However, after JAXA's new medium-lift H3 rocket failed on its debut in March, the agency postponed the launch of H-IIA No. 47 for several months to investigate the cause.

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will delay the maiden launch of its heavy-lift H3 rocket to Feb. 17 from Feb. 15 due to weather conditions, the space agency said on Tuesday.

JAXA is examining the failure to determine what went wrong. The last rocket launch failure was the H2A No. 6 rocket in 2003, the agency said.