Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

By Robert Wall
Japan successfully launched an X-band communications satellite using the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries H3 rocket.
Operations & Safety

By Graham Warwick
Japan plans to fly a supersonic demonstrator with robust low boom.
Emerging Technologies

By Guy Norris
Contrails from hydrogen-fueled aircraft may form more readily and be more widespread than those from jet-fueled aircraft but have less of a climate impact.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Japan has launched a project to flight demonstrate robust low-boom design technology.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Drag-reducing wake thruster; superconducting motor for Airbus; autonomy for Anthem flight deck; China’s large tiltrotor.
Emerging Technologies

By Chen Chuanren
The study is part of a technology demonstration project known as Megawatt funded to JAXA by Japan’s Ministry of Education.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
JAXA has selected ArkEdge Space to study the feasibility of a low-Earth-orbit (LEO) position, navigation and timing (PNT) satellite constellation.
Satellites

By Garrett Reim
Solar sails could make new deep space missions possible. One potential application is a “space weather buoy” between the Earth and the Sun.
Space Exploration

By Garrett Reim
Water-based thruster specialist Pale Blue plans to demonstrate an ion thruster in early 2025.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz, Mark Carreau
The Crew Flight Test of the Boeing-built CST-100 Starliner spacecraft has marked its eighth week docked at the International Space Station.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA must document efforts to address the greater-than-planned mass of the first two modules for its lunar-orbiting human-tended Gateway, says GAO auditors.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA cites a gap in currently envisioned lunar cargo lander capabilities.
Space

By Robert Wall
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has successfully launched the Daichi-4 earth observation satellite using its H3 rocket.
Space

By Mark Carreau
The findings, attributed to more than 50 scientists, were published June 26 in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science.
Space

By Graham Warwick
GE’s small hybrid core; on-site hydrogen on demand; 3D-printing magnesium; and very-low-orbit space tracker.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
A flex shaft for the A350’s high lift system has become the most complex 3D-printed metal part to be approved for series production by Airbus and EASA.
Emerging Technologies

By Robert Wall
The EarthCARE satellite is designed to determine what role clouds and aerosols play in heating and cooling the atmosphere to better understand climate change.
Space

By Mark Carreau
An Ion Beam Deflection mission could demonstrate a new low-thrust concept to counter so-called "rubble pile" asteroids.
Space

By Matthew Fulco
The country is shaking up space exploration, commerce and the broader geopolitical picture.
Space

By Garrett Reim
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has selected Astroscale to remove an upper-stage rocket body from orbit.
Space

By Chen Chuanren
Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) Aerospace Systems Company is hoping to “aggressively” market its self-developed engines overseas.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Mark Carreau
New agreements between the U.S. and Japan are set to expand cooperation in the future human exploration of the Moon.
Space

By Guy Norris
JAXA tells Aerospace DAILY that despite the two-year delay, it is only considering some minor efforts to add “more sophistication” to some of the MMX experiments.
Space Symposium

By Mark Carreau
Wakata has logged 505 days in space over five missions on the NASA space shuttle, Russian Soyuz, SpaceX Crew Dragon and International Space Station.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Japan’s Smart Lander For Investigating Moon spacecraft has survived a second lunar night.
Space