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High-altitude drop test results of a simulated small return capsule for the H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV) KOUNOTORI Last Updated: January 11, 2018 Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is developing a small return capsule that will be released from the H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV) KOUNOTORI undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) , and then returned […]
Turkey hands over samples to Japan for a space materials exposure experiment – Experiment to begin next spring on the exposed facility of “Kibo”! Last Updated: January 11, 2018 On November 21, 2017, experiment samples were handed over from Tukey to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) at the JAXA Tsukuba Space Center (TKSC), where […]
![[Hayabusa2 Project site] What will asteroid Ryugu look like?](http://www.jspec.jaxa.jp/common/img/ogp.jpg "[Hayabusa2 Project site] What will asteroid Ryugu look like?")
We are looking for host organisations for a space art contest! Our asteroid explorer, Hayabusa2, is getting close to its destination. Between June and July 2018, the spacecraft will reach asteroid (162173) Ryugu and start to investigate this small world. At the moment, we know very little about the appearance of Ryugu. We therefore are […]
Items for Asian Try Zero-G 2018 launched by Dragon-13 Last Updated: December 25, 2017 Falcon9/Dragon CRS-13 was successfully launched (Credit： NASA) Kibo-ABC member countries decided to prepare unique flight items for Asian Try Zero-G 2018 . This required many kinds of activities for flight preparation, which were completed, and launched on Dec. 15th, 2017 and […]
Release on updated images of Kibo’s internal drone “Int-Ball” (Int-Ball Letter Vol. 7) Last Updated: December 14, 2017 The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has disclosed “Int-Ball Letter” Vol. 7 in which the latest video of the Kibo’s internal drone called “Int-Ball” on the International Space Station (ISS) is presented. On upcoming December 17, the […]
Kibo-ABC Member Countries’ News: Kibo-ABC Workshop at the 24th APRSAF, in India Last Updated: December 14, 2017 The Kibo-ABC workshop was held on November 13 at the Sheraton Grand Bangalore Hotel at Brigade Gateway, in Bangalore, India. It was organized under the Space Environment Utilization Working Group (SEUWG), and the 24th session of the Asia-Pacific […]
November 10, 2017 JAXA demonstrated effect of airframe noise reduction technologies in a flight test campaign – the 2nd flight demonstration successfully carried out in September 2017 The FQUROH project team conducted the second flight demonstration on airframe noise reduction technologies with JAXA’s jet research aircraft “Hisho” at Noto Satoyama Airport (Ishikawa, Japan) between 13 […]
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Oct 25, 2017 On September 22, 2017 (JST), NASA and JAXA held a joint press conference at JAXA Tokyo office to confirm plans to cooperate on three space science missions. Thomas Zurbuchen, the Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate of NASA and Saku Tsuneta, the Director General of ISAS/JAXA expressed their strong determination to […]
Oct 19, 2017 Main points of this study A new result based on the data from the Lunar Radar Sounder onboard SELENE(Selenological and Engineering Explorer/ Kaguya) Detection of a 50-km long intact lava tube underground along a lava flow river “rille” on the Marius Hills of the Moon This research result is very significant because […]
Oct 13, 2017 (JST)Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency “EarthCARE Research A-Train Product” is now available JAXA Earth Observation Research Center (EORC) opened a new website to display and distribute “EarthCARE Research A-Train Product” derived from A-train (CloudSat/CALIOP/MODIS) data by using algorithms developing for the JAXA EarthCARE mission. In this system, the data from 2006 to 2014 […]
Oct 11, 2017 (c) ISAS/JAXA Download：[JPG: 4.8MB ] An international research team led by Dr. Shin-nosuke Ishikawa, (ISAS/JAXA) succeeded in detecting the subtle signs of nanoflares (tiny flares) in a region of the solar corona where no discernible flare activity was taking place. The finding was made by a combination of hard X-ray data from FOXSI […]
Ice analogs mimicking interstellar ice behave like liquids at temperatures between -210°C and -120°C according to Hokkaido University researchers. This liquid-like ice may enhance the formation of organic compounds including prebiotic molecules and the accretion of dust to form planets. [ Movie https://youtu.be/M0udrmZlHMA ] Bubbling of the UV-irradiated amorphous ice (H2O-CH3OH-NH3) mimicking interstellar ice at […]