Launch of “Daichi” (ALOS) / H-IIA F8

The H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 8 (H-IIA F8) with the Advanced Land Observing Satellite “Daichi”(ALOS) onboard…

JAXA Astronauts Mission Specialists

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) would like to announce that three JAXA astronauts were certified as…

OICETS and Artemis

The first bi-directional optical link between KIRARI, the Japanese satellite officially called OICETS (which stands for…

Scaled Experimental Supersonic Transport (SST)

The scaled experimental SST, launched at 7:06 (a.m.) on 10 October, 2005 local time, at the…

Re-entry of SOLAR-A

According to information from the Space Surveillance Network (SSN) of the USA, the Solar X-ray Observatory…

Launch of OICETS

The Optical Inter-orbit Communications Engineering Test Satellite (OICETS) and the Innovative Technology Demonstration Experiment Satellite (INDEX),…

Anomaly with the Suzaku

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has been carrying out initial operations of the “Suzaku” including…

Launch of OICETS and INDEX

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) reported to the Space Activities Commission (SAC) about the launch of…

Launch of M-V-6

The M-V Launch Vehicle No. 6 (M-V-6) with the 23rd scientific satellite (ASTRO-EII) onboard was launched…

ASTRO-E2 ON JAPANESE OBSERVATORY

A pioneering X-ray detector developed at NASA’S Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, Md. will…