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Monday, 05 February 2024 10:07

Sky Perfect Jsat eyes to eliminate 100 million particles of space debris with laser technology

Japanese corporate group and satellite communication and multi-channel pay TV company Sky Perfect Jsat announced it has established a new firm Orbital Lasers to develop a laser-based space debris removal technology to eliminate more than 100 million particles of space debris larger than one millimetre in Earth’s orbit.

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Monday, 14 June 2010 22:41

Video of Hayabusa fiery descent

A video of the JAXA Hayabusa capsule making its blazing return to Earth is shown in a YouTube video filmed by NASA scientists.

 

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Monday, 14 June 2010 06:36

Earth says Welcome Back to Hayabusa

After a seven-year, four-billion-kilometer voyage to-and-from an asteroid, the Japanese Hayabusa spacecraft has landed in a remote site in Australia after speeding through Earth's atmosphere in a fiery blaze. Welcome back, Hayabusa!

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Saturday, 12 June 2010 00:16

JAXA asteroid collector mission almost home

The Hayabusa spacecraft, which traveled to the asteroid Itokawa, is expected to land in Australia on Sunday, June 13, 2010. The Japanese space agency is hoping it will return a valuable collection of data and actual samples from the asteroid.

 

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Friday, 21 May 2010 22:45

Japan launches Akatsuki to Venus

On Friday, May 21, 2010, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched its Venus climate orbiter called Akatsuki, which means 'dawn' in Japanese.

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Saturday, 13 March 2010 06:57

Five ISS countries want space ops through 2028

The space agencies for the United States, Russia, Canada, Europe, and Japan are eager to use the International Space Station for expanded scientific experiments, possibly through the year 2028.

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Saturday, 02 January 2010 20:18

Hole as big as city block found on Moon

A Japanese led team of researchers has found a large, dark pit on the near side of the Moon that is "as big as a city block and deep as a modest skyscraper." Probably created billions of years ago, it is considered by the scientists to be a collapsed lava tube.
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Monday, 21 December 2009 19:28

Soyuz TMA-17 lifts off 12.21.2009 for Space Station

The Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft lifted off at 4:52 p.m. Eastern Standard Time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome with American, Russian, and Japanese astronauts onboard. They are headed to the International Space Station as new members of the ISS Expedition 22 crew.

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Sunday, 20 December 2009 21:10

International Christmas mission to Space Station

Three holiday travelers from the countries of the United States, Russia, and Japan are bringing the holiday spirit of cooperation and peace to the International Space Station as they ready themselves for their launch on Monday, December, 21, 2009.

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Sunday, 20 September 2009 18:42

Space station crew says 'Konnichiwa' to first Japanese cargo ship

The H-2 Transfer Vehicle 1 (HTV-1), the first Japanese cargo ship to the International Space Station, arrived at 3:47 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), 1947 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), on Thursday, September 17, 2009, with a appreciative 'hello' from the ISS crew.
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Monday, 03 August 2009 17:41

Japan and U.S. ride the future with ion propulsion

The U.S.-based company Aerojet and the Japan-based company NEC Corporation are joining forces to provide low power ion propulsion systems for the U.S. and Japanese aerospace markets.

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Monday, 15 June 2009 18:57

Japanese Kaguya seen crashing into Moon

AT 3:25 a.m. Japanese time (1825 GMT) the Kaguya spacecraft made a controlled hard crash onto the Moon ending a successful mission to comprehensively map the lunar surface. It was seen on Earth by professional and amateur astronomers.

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Friday, 12 June 2009 19:12

Japanese space probe to intentionally collide with Earth

The Japanese government announced June 11, 2009 that its Hayabusa spacecraft will be sent on a course that will simulate the trajectory of an asteroid so its astronomers can improve their abilities to track near Earth objects that could potentially hit Earth.

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Wednesday, 10 June 2009 18:19

Asia, Australia may see Kaguya and Moon crash

The Japanese Kaguya spacecraft will end its mission with an impact on the Moon. The Wednesday, June 10, 2009 crash is likely to be seen by people in Asia and Australia at approximately 1825 Universal Time (UT). Find out what time the crash will occur locally for you.

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Thursday, 04 June 2009 17:06

Endeavour, STS-127: GO for space launch

On Wednesday, June 3, 2009, NASA gave the official “thumb’s up” for the launch of space shuttle Endeavour and its STS-127 crew to the International Space Station. It’s another assembly mission as NASA steadily makes progress for the completion of the Station.

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Wednesday, 27 May 2009 18:02

Three new Space Station crew to join three others onboard

The International Space Station Expedition 20 crew launched from the Baikonou Cosmodrome on Wednesday, May 27, 2009. When they shake hands with the current ISS Expedition 19 crew already onboard the ISS, their meeting will mark the expansion of the Space Station from three to six crewmembers.
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Thursday, 26 March 2009 20:15

03-26-09: Expedition 19 crew launches to Space Station

At 6:49:18 a.m. CDT on Thursday, March 26, 2009, two crewmembers of the nineteenth team to live on the International Space Station (ISS) was launched into orbit, along with a wealthy spaceflight participant. The crew will be part of a historic doubling of capacity for the Space Station.
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Sunday, 15 February 2009 20:27

Monumental Moon map makes more missions manageable

The most comprehensive mapping of the Moon by an international science team has resolved its lunar surface features down to nine miles (15 kilometers). This accomplishment will help astronauts and robotic rovers on the lunar surface, along with helping to map other planets out there in space.

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Thursday, 22 January 2009 20:23

U.S. announces space station concept 25 years ago

Twenty-five years ago, on January 25, 1984, President Ronald Reagan announced in his State of the Union Address the plan of the United States to build a permanently manned space station "within the decade."

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Monday, 21 July 2008 21:58

UPDATE: NASA has no plans to buy JAXA transfer vehicles

As reported by many news sources (but incorrect in their information), NASA announced on July 21, 2008, that the U.S. space agency has no plans to purchase the H-2 Transfer Vehicle (HTV) from Japan. In fact, NASA has stated it will "depend on [U.S.] commercial resupply of cargo delivery to the station."

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