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Topics List Jun. 10, 2016 UpdatedHitomi Experience Report – Handout for the Specialists advisory panel meeting called by MEXT. Jun. 3, 2016 UpdatedHandout for the Specialists advisory panel meeting called by MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology). May 27, 2016 UpdatedHandout for the Specialists advisory panel meeting called by MEXT (Ministry of […]

Topics List Jun. 8, 2016 UpdatedAtmospheric balloon experiment B16-02 to capture microorganisms in the stratosphere JAXA released the first atmospheric balloon in Japan Fiscal Year 2016 from the Taiki Aerospace Research Field, which is a base for cooperation between the host town and JAXA, at 3:43 a.m. on June 8 (Wed.), 2016. The purpose of […]

Topics List May 31, 2016 UpdatedHandout for the Specialists advisory panel meeting called by MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology). May 24, 2016 UpdatedHandout for the Specialists advisory panel meeting called by MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology). Apr. 28, 2016 UpdatedOperation Plan of ASTRO-H (Hitomi) JAXA established the […]

Topics List May 24, 2016 UpdatedHandout for the Specialists advisory panel meeting called by MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology). Apr. 28, 2016 UpdatedOperation Plan of ASTRO-H (Hitomi) JAXA established the emergency headquarters and has been doing its utmost to understand the anomaly of ASTRO-H (“Hitomi”). We have made every effort to […]

JAXA President Monthly Regular Press Conference Date and time: From 11:00 – 11:40 a.m. on May 12 (Thu), 2016Venue: JAXA Tokyo Office Presentation Room (B1 floor)MC: Yoshikazu Shoji, JAXA Public Affairs Department Director X-ray Astronomy Satellite “Hitomi” (ASTRO-H) Concerning the X-ray Astronomy Satellite “Hitomi,” we previously held a press conference on April 28. As we […]

Topics List May 23, 2016 UpdatedA movie of the Venus’ night-side produced by IR2 This movie is produced from the IR2 2.26-μm images, acquired on 29 March 2016 at a distance of 0.36 million km. Original 4 images were acquired with 4-hour intervals from 16:03 JST (07:03 UT). In 4 hours, the super-rotating clouds move […]

Topics List May 20, 2016 UpdatedWhole-atmospheric monthly CO2 concentration tops 400 ppm based on observations by IBUKI A recent provisional analysis of IBUKI (GOSAT) observational data shows that the global atmospheric monthly mean CO2 concentration observed vertically through the whole atmosphere exceeded 400 ppm in December 2015 for the first time since GOSAT was launched […]

ISS/Kibo Monthly News (First issue) Last Updated: May 19, 2016 ISS/Kibo Monthly News introduces events on the Japanese Experiment Module (“Kibo”) and the International Space Station (ISS) and activities of JAXA Astronauts. Topic of the Month Philippine’s 50-kg-class microsatellite “DIWATA-1” deployed from Kibo Deployment of DIWATA-1 (Credit: JAXA/NASA) On April 27 at 8:45 pm, a […]

About H3 Launch Vehicle Safer, more useful, more accessibleSupports future space applicationsJapan quality, global standard The H3 Launch Vehicle is a liquid propellant launch vehicle currently under development. This is the first full-scale development of the 21st century. The aim of this development is to respond to launch demands from global customers. Based on our […]

ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 Observation Results on Wildfire in Canada Responding to an emergency observation requests from the International Charter of Space and Major Disasters, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) performed an emergency observation for the wildfire in Canada by means of the Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar-2 (PALSAR-2) aboard the Advanced Land Observing Satellite-2 […]

Achievements of the “Space Environment and Kibo Utilization Workshop (SEKUW)” Last Updated: May 16, 2016 Space Environment and Kibo Utilization Workshop(SEKUW) National Planetarium, Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaApril 18-19 2016 The Space Environment and Kibo Utilization Workshop (SEKUW) was successfully convened at the National Planetarium, National Space Agency (ANGKASA), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from April 18 to 19, […]

The Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite “IBUKI” (GOSAT) is designed to measure the concentration of major greenhouse gases from space. GOSAT Project is a joint effort promoted by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) and the Ministry of the Environment (MOE). Let’s block ads! (Why?) To source

Topics List Apr. 28, 2016 UpdatedAKATSUKI onboard instruments to move to regular operation JAXA decided to shift the operation mode of the five onboard instruments of AKATSUKI to the regular operation mode, namely 1μm camera (IR1), 2μm camera (IR2), Longwave IR camera (LIR), Ultraviolet image (UVI), and Ultra-stable Oscillator (USO).Lightening and airglow camera (LAC) continues […]