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Topics List Mar. 29, 2016 UpdatedCurrent Status of Communication Anomaly of X-ray Astronomy Satellite “Hitomi” (ASTRO-H) (Mar. 29) The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has been trying to communicate with the X-ray Astronomy Satellite “Hitomi” (ASTRO-H), using ground stations both in Japan and overseas.By utilizing two opportunities of communicating with Hitomi, JAXA received signals from […]

Topics List Mar. 27, 2016 UpdatedCommunication failure of X-ray Astronomy Satellite “Hitomi” (ASTRO-H) The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) found that communication with the X-ray Astronomy Satellite “Hitomi” (ASTRO-H), launched on February 17, 2016 (JST), failed from the start of its operation originally scheduled at 16:40, Saturday March 26 (JST). Up to now, JAXA has […]

Artistic rendering of the Jupiter’s aurora and magnetosphere. [Click for large image] Jupiter boasts some of the most powerful aurora in the solar system. Compared to the Earth’s aurora, it is a few hundred times more powerful and brighter in the all spectrum range. What causes Jupiter’s powerful aurora? Several hypotheses have been proposed, but […]

| 1 | 2 | 3 | SMILES Full of “First Times” Are you aware of the SMILES (Superconducting Submillimeter-Wave Limb Emission Sounder)? Above the troposphere (0~15km) where there will be weather phenomena such as typhoon and thunder, there covers the stratosphere (15~50km) with the ozone layer. The ozone layer is playing an important role […]

Kibo-ABC Member Countries’ News: The Philippines Last Updated: March 18, 2016 The First Philippine-made 50kg Class Satellite “DIWATA-1” Ready for Launch J-SSOD on ISS/Kibo DIWATA-1, the first Philippine-made satellite has been handed over to JAXA at Tsukuba Space Center on January 13, to prepare for its launch to International Space Station into space in April […]

Topics List Mar. 17, 2016 UpdatedDAICHI-2 honored by central emergency communications council DAICHI-2 received an award for its contributions to anti-disaster operations by the council (*) on March 16, 2016. DAICHI-2 performs emergency observations in response to requests from disaster preparation agencies, and swiftly provides data to understand signs of disasters and their status.For emergency […]

[Japanese ] Deadline: 12:00, April 25, 2016(Japan Standard Time) 　　In the early days of space exploration, 1958, the first US satellite Explorer 1 discovered existence of high energy charged particles in geospace by the onboard radiation detector. The observations by subsequent explorers identified that high energy charged particles are distributed in doughnut shape surrounding Earth. […]

March 10, 2016Institute of Space and Astronautical Science / Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (ISAS/JAXA)Naional Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ)National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ/NINS), and the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), release partial eclipse images and videos taken on March […]

JAXA President Monthly Regular Press Conference Date and time: From 10:30 – 11:00 a.m. on Feb. 25 (Thu.), 2016Venue: JAXA Tokyo Office Presentation Room (B1 floor)MC: Yoshikazu Shoji, JAXA Public Affairs Department Director X-ray Astronomy Satellite “Hitomi” (ASTRO-H) launch “Hitomi”, launched at 5:45:00 p.m. on February 17 (Wed.), 2016, is flying smoothly. It is now […]

JAXA Astronaut Activity Report, January, 2016 Last Updated: March 7, 2016 This is JAXA’s Japanese astronaut activity report for January, 2016. Astronaut Kimiya Yui visits Star City in Russia Expedition 44/45 crew holding a press conference (Credit: JAXA/GCTC) Astronaut Kimiya Yui, who accomplished his ISS Expedition 44/45 mission, visited the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) […]

3 March 2016Japan Aerospace Exploration AgencyEarth Observation Research Center Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Products (Version 4) Release JAXA and NASA have started to provide a new version (Version 4) of Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) standard products. The GPM Version 4 data are available from March 3, 2015.Concurrently, existing GPM data are also being reprocessed back […]

Logo for the next Kibo-ABC small space experiment “AHiS” has been selected Last Updated: February 29, 2016 The logo for SSAF 2016 / AHiS (Asian Herb in Space) mission has been selected by Kibo-ABC member countries. The logo design is provided by NSTDA , a Kibo-ABC member agency from Thailand. With its simple form which […]

Topics List Feb. 29, 2016 UpdatedHitomi critical operation phase successfully completed! JAXA confirmed the completion of a sequence of important operations of the X-ray Astronomy Satellite “Hitomi” (ASTRO-H), including turning the cooling system on, test operation of the Soft X-ray Spectrometer (SXS), and extending the Extensible Optical Bench (EOB). With this confirmation, the critical operation […]