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Japan will continue to explore
The Japan Space Exploration Agency (JAXA) will launch a spacecraft to a meteorite next year to sample soil and rock.
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Japan plans to launch a spy satellite
The Japan Space Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) have said that they will launch H-IIA missiles carrying a spy satellite early next year,…
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Japan brings robots to space as astronauts
A talking humanoid robot will be put in space as a companion to a Japanese astronaut in a 6-month mission.
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Japan prepares to launch a fourth intelligence radar satellite
The Japan Aerospace Research, Development Agency (JAXA) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Company on November 27 said they will launch a fourth intelligence radar with an…
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Japanese astronaut safely returns to earth
Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide returned safely to Earth on November 19 after completing a four-month mission to the International Space Station (ISS) and set a new r…
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Japan develops new boosters
Japan is planning to launch Epsilon light boosters in the summer of 2013, RIA Novosti reports from Japan Space Exploration Agency (JAXA) today October 30.
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Japanese astronauts complete the trip outside the ISS station
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said on the morning of November 2, astronaut Akihiko Hoshide worked on the International Space Station (ISS) ended his third space wal…
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Japanese satellites will broadcast Morse code with led lights
A small Japanese satellite, which has just been released into space with Vietnam's F-1 satellite, will generate Morse codes with led light, visible throughout the world.
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Myanmar thanks Japan to launch a global observation satellite
According to the newspaper, Marubeni Aerospace of Japan will help the Southeast Asian country launch the satellite to serve the operation of the Hydrometeorological Agen…
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America - Japan cooperates to monitor pillar garbage
The Japanese newspaper recently reported that Japan and the United States have agreed to share data on space junk, and use radar to enhance the monitoring of these debri…
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Japan launched a cargo supply ship to ISS
Japan is ready to launch an unmanned cargo supply ship to the International Space Station at 2:06 pm on July 20 (GMT), or 11 am on Saturday (July 21). The H-2 Transfer s…
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Japan takes students' experiments to space
Space.com said that the most special feature of Kounotori 3 (White Stork 3) is that it carries two research projects of Japanese students, a new camera system besides fo…
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Russia and Japan want to build bases on the moon
JAXA and Roscosmos announced their ambition to build a moon base during the Global Space Exploration conference - an event that took place from May 22 to 24 in the US ca…
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New discoveries about diaries
The sun and planets are covered by bubbles of charged and magnetic particles called heliosomes. At the edge of the heliosphere, where it collides with intermittent clump…
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Japan jumped into the field of launching satellites
Japan will launch a satellite from South Korea into the space on May 18, a country official said. This is the first time Japan has participated in the field that Europe…