Please tell us about your current job. I am currently acting as the Flight Director for HTV (nicknamed “Kounotori”) at the HTV Technology Center. As such, I am the manager of the control room that oversees the flight of Kounotori. What kind of role to you hold at the HTV Technology Center in the Department […]
Call for Proposals: Asian Try Zero-G 2017-2018 Last Updated: February 9, 2017 Kibo-ABC would like to invite your ideas for the simple space experiment “Asian Try Zero-G 2017-2018” program to be conducted in the International Space Station (ISS)/Kibo. The selection area has 2 categories: Category 1 for those under 18 years old, and Category 2 […]
KOUNOTORI6 Mission Completed Last Updated: February 7, 2017 Post-mission press conference (Credit:JAXA) KOUNOTORI6 (HTV6) descended to an altitude of 120km over the east coast of New Zealand and reentered the Earth’s atmosphere at around 0:06 a.m. on February 6. KOUNOTORI6 successfully completed its cargo supply mission to the ISS. Estimated Reentry* Time 0:06 a.m. February […]
Reentry of KOUNOTORI6 was confirmed Last Updated: February 6, 2017 HTV Mission Control Room during the reentry of KOUNOTORI6 at the Tsukuba Space Center (Credit:JAXA) The reentry of the H-II Transfer Vehicle KOUNOTORI6 (HTV6) into Earth’s atmosphere was confirmed. *All times are Japan Standard Time (JST. UTC + 9 hours) Let’s block ads! (Why?) To […]
Topic of the Month Exercise using a medicine ball (weighted ball) (November 22) Exercise for preventing falls (November 22) Fall prevention exercise using uneven bars (November 24. All photos taken at the Tsukuba Space Center) Astronaut Takuya Onishi completes rehabilitation program Onishi undergoing rehabilitation (Movie: 2 min., 29 s.) Astronaut Takuya Onishi, who had been […]
Rapid decrease in the amount of bones and muscles as a result of a long-term rearing for 35 days–A flash report of on-ground analysis of space mice Last Updated: January 30, 2017 Japan Aerospace Exploration AgencyUniversity of TsukubaTokyo Medical and Dental University A mission to rear small animals in the Kibo module successfully completed the […]
KOUNOTORI6 Leaves the ISS Last Updated: January 28, 2017 KOUNOTORI6 being released by the ISS robotic arm（Credit: JAXA/NASA） Grappled by the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS), KOUNOTORI6 was moved to the releasing point below the ISS and was released at 0:45 a.m., January 28. KOUNOTORI6 initiated separation maneuvers to leave the ISS proximity. Later, […]
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JAXA President Monthly Press Conference Speech Abstracts by Naoki Okumura, President of JAXADate and time: From 1:30 – 2:00 p.m. on December 16 (Fri), 2016Venue: JAXA Tokyo Office Presentation Room (B1 floor)MC: Yoshikazu Shoji, Director, Public Affairs Department KOUNOTORI6 Launch On December 9, cargo transporter to the International Space Station, KOUNOTORI6 was launched by H-IIB […]
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The Exposed Pallet (EP) of KOUNOTORI6 was reinstalled into KOUNOTORI6’s Unpressurized Logistics Carrier (ULC) Last Updated: January 23, 2017 The Exposed Pallet (EP) of KOUNOTORI6 was reinstalled into KOUNOTORI6’s Unpressurized Logistics Carrier (ULC) at 11:20 a.m., January 23. Meanwhile, station crew continues cargo and trash transfer between the Pressurized Logistics Carrier (PLC) and the ISS. […]
January 17, 2017 (JST)Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation (GSMaP) Products (Version 04) Release JAXA has started to provide a new version (Version 04) of Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation (GSMaP) product. The GPM Version 04 data are available from January 17, 2017.Concurrently, existing […]
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Successful deployment of six CubeSats delivered by KOUNOTORI6 Last Updated: January 16, 2017 On December 19, 2016, from 6:10 p.m. – 7:50 p.m. (Japan time), a total of six microsatellites were successfully deployed into orbit from the Japanese Experiment Module (“Kibo”). The series of deployments were conducted in the following order. First: three 1U-sized CubeSats, […]