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An X-ray telescope piggybacked on Japan’s Moon mission launch

September 08, 2023 11:58 am

A powerful X-ray observatory launched along with Japan's SLIM mission that aims to land on the Moon.

Rocket being developed by Japan's space agency explodes during testing but no injuries reported

July 14, 2023 6:32 pm

The failure is a setback for JAXA's ambitions to enter fully into the launch market for small satellites

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Japan launches H3 rocket, destroys it over 2nd stage failure

March 07, 2023 11:28 am

The failure is the second in six months since a smaller Epsilon-series solid-fuelled rocket designed to launch scientific satellites failed in October.

Japan space agency rocket carrying 8 satellites fails

October 16, 2022 4:45 pm

The Japanese Epsilon-6 rocket was not in the right position to orbit around the Earth and its flight had to be aborted less than seven minutes after takeoff from the Uchinoura Space Center.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Dragon capsule launches from Pad-39A on the Crew 5 mission

SpaceX capsule heads to space station ferrying NASA crew and Russian

October 06, 2022 11:17 am

The SpaceX launch vehicle, consisting of a Falcon 9 rocket topped with a Crew Dragon capsule dubbed Endurance, lifted off into clear skies at noon EDT (9.30 PM IST) from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral.

Stunning close-up of Mercury captured by European-Japanese BepiColombo

June 24, 2022 4:11 pm

BepiColombo is the European Space Agency's mission to Mercury, in collaboration with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.

Japan aims to bring back soil samples from Mars moon by 2029

August 20, 2021 1:12 pm

By studying Phobos soil samples including material from Mars, scientists hope to learn about the evolution of the Martian biosphere.

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Japan says space probe landed on asteroid to get soil sample

July 11, 2019 11:27 am

Hayabusa2 had created itself a landing crater in April by dropping a copper impactor. Thursday's mission was to land inside that crater and collect underground samples that scientists believe contain more valuable data.

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ISRO, JAXA to collaborate on future lunar missions

November 19, 2017 5:01 pm

The space agencies of Japan and India, JAXA and ISRO, could collaborate on future lunar missions, said the ISRO chief in a joint statement.

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Mysterious night side of Venus revealed for first time

September 18, 2017 6:42 pm

Scientists have characterised wind and cloud patterns of the night side of planet Venus for the first time, and found that it behaves very differently from the part facing the Sun.