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Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Japan Aerospace eXploration Agency (JAXA) is Japan's national aerospace agency. Japans first infared astronomy mission was the 15 cm IRTS telescope which was part of the SFU multipurpose satellite in 1995. Japan tested a solar sail again as a sub payload to the Astro-F (Akari) mission on February 22 2006. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japan_Aerospace_Exploration_Agency   (1664 words)

Japan's M-5 rocket, satellite blast off - Boston.com - Science - News Japan on Sunday successfully launched a rocket carrying X-ray telescopes into Earth's orbit to examine black holes and galaxies, the country's space agency Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, said. Japan successfully launched a rocket carrying X-ray telescopes into Earth's orbit to examine black holes and galaxies on Sunday, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said. Japan's M-5 rocket, carrying the 6.5-meter-(21-foot-)long satellite in its nose cone, is shot into space from Uchinoura, 985 kilometers (620 miles) southwest of Tokyo Sunday, July 10, 2005. www.boston.com /news/science/articles/2005/07/10/japans_m_5_rocket_satellite_blast_off   (374 words)

Japan Space Agency Seeks Private Investors for Two Dozen Projects Asian American Intelligence GoldSea The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, is seeking outside funding due to a decline in government outlays for space programs and the agency's desire to promote space-related businesses, the Nihon Keizai newspaper reported. In this artist rendering released by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, a manned space craft flies to the moon from the earth. Japan has been seeking to expand its space exploration program, which agency officials have said is limited by the current budget. goldsea.com /Asiagate/601/03jaxa.html   (384 words)

Hayabusa Collects Asteroid Sample for further research It successfully collected a sample of the surface soils for the second time as per, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announcement. Japan, meanwhile, is soaring into space exploration history with a flight that has provided a stellar boost for the Japanese space program, and cause for major celebration in the homeland. It is highly probable, according to the agency, that the asteroid explorer has snatched several grams of surface samples from the near Earth asteroid named after the "father" of Japan's space program, Hideo Itokawa, but the exact volume will not be known until the spacecraft returns safely to Earth. internationalreporter.com /news/read.php?id=780   (925 words)

NEWS - SCIENCE - Comcast.net The proposal unveiled by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, marks the agency's first attempt in years to rethink its missions and rejuvenate a space program that has been hobbled by recent launchpad and space probe failures. TOKYO- Japan's space agency mapped out a new, ambitious plan Wednesday for manned flights to the moon by 2025 as a first step to explore the solar system's farflung planets, but said decisions about whether Japan will go it alone or collaborate with other nations won't be made for another decade. Japan's long-term vision resembles those of U.S. President George W. Bush and European space officials, who hope to land astronauts and robots on the moon as a first step to sending space shuttle missions to Mars. www.comcast.net /news/science/index.jsp?cat=SCIENCE&fn=/2005/04/07/100605.html   (716 words)

Japan returns to space 15 months after failure - INQ7.net Tsukasa Mito, executive director of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, visited three shrines near the space center on the eve of the launch. Japan has sent up five H-2A rockets successfully but suffered a setback in November 2003 when it had to destroy the sixth H-2A rocket just 10 minutes after lift-off when one of two rocket boosters failed to separate from the main body. Japan was shocked after Pyongyang fired a ballistic missile over the country into the Pacific Ocean in August 1998. news.inq7.net /world/index.php?index=1&story_id=28812   (739 words)

Japan's revamped space agency plans new rocket to cut launch cost The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), which will formally start operations on October 1, will develop a new rocket that costs about half the 8.5 billion yen (73 million dollars) needed to launch the present H-2A rocket, said Shuichiro Yamanouchi, who will become head of JAXA. Japan's revamped space agency plans to develop a new rocket to halve launch costs and will cut staff to increase its efficiency, the head of the organization said Wednesday. NASDA is due to merge with two other institutions -- the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) and the National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan -- to create JAXA as part of the government's rationalisation efforts. www.spacedaily.com /2003/030917105248.90vamwn1.html   (350 words)

Space Today Online - Spacefaring Japan goes to the Moon They now are projects of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), which was created in 2003 by the merger of ISAS, NASDA, and the National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan (NAL). Japan's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) is a government-funded agency that focuses on science research in space. Japan has launched dozens of spacecraft since 1970 with a third of the satellites still in operation. www.spacetoday.org /Japan/Japan/Moon.html   (2674 words)

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency JAXA The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is to be born on October 1, 2003, merging the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), the National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan (NAL), and the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA). The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is to engage in the following activities comprehensively and according to a plan within a scope of peaceful purposes: Academic research in space science in cooperation with universities, basic research concerning space scietific technology, fundamental research and development related to space, and operations of spacecraft development, launch, tracking and operation. The name of the new agency is "Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)". www.nasda.go.jp /jaxa/index_e.html   (764 words)

USATODAY.com - Japan to resume supersonic jet test after three-year hiatus TOKYO &; Japan's space agency will launch an arrow-shaped airplane at twice the speed of sound high over the Australian outback as early as next month in a crucial test of plans to develop a supersonic successor to the Concorde. Japan's space agency plans to launch an airplane at twice the speed of sound. Japan has already successfully tested an engine that can theoretically reach speeds of up to mach 5.5, or more than five times the speed of sound. www.usatoday.com /tech/news/2005-08-23-japan-supersonic-jet_x.htm?csp=34   (643 words)

Spacecraft lands successfully on asteroid (AP Photo/Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, HO) :: In this photo released by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the part of asteroid Itokawa is seen with the shadow of probeHayabusa, center, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2005. Japan's space agency said Wednesday its spacecraft had successfully touched down on an asteroid 180 million miles from Earth despite an earlier announcement that it had failed. The agency officials were still analyzing the data and will decide by Thursday whether to conduct a second landing attempt Friday, according to Seiji Koyama, a spokesman for the space agency. www.happynews.com /news/11232005/spacecraft-lands-successfully.htm   (548 words)

TIME Asia Print Page: Asia's Space Race -- "We were surprised," says Masashi Okada, a launch-systems engineer at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the country's equivalent of NASA. In Japan, the Shenzhou V launch was met with disbelief and anxiety that continues to reverberate among scientific and political circles. Space exploration is one area of national endeavor where developing China, the third nation to put a man in orbit around Earth, is not scrambling to catch up with its wealthier, more technologically advanced rival. www.time.com /time/asia/magazine/printout/0,13675,501051017-1115727-1,00.html   (1826 words)

TODAYonline Japan's Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Kenji Kosaka said the collection of samples "is a world first" and expressed his pleasure at the news of the apparent success. Japan's space program has been eyeing more ambitious projects after its humiliating setback in November 2003 when it had to destroy a rocket carrying a satellite to spy on communist neighbor North Korea shortly after lift-off when one of two rocket boosters failed to separate. In February, Japan sent a weather satellite into space, its first launch since the 2003 failure. www.todayonline.com /articles/86851.asp   (664 words)

BBC NEWS Science/Nature Japan tests supersonic jet model Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency (Jaxa) has successfully tested a new design for a supersonic airliner. Officials at the aerospace agency said the test marked a major step forward in the development of supersonic flight technology. Japanese and French aerospace industry groups signed an accord in France in June this year to conduct joint research on a next-generation supersonic transport aircraft. news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/4325634.stm   (351 words)

Space Today Online - Spacefaring Japan history In 2003, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) was created by merging the former National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA), Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), and National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan (NAL). Japan got a late start in space work under restrictions at the end of World War II and had been using technology from the U.S. It had low space budgets, spending only $1.06 billion for space projects last year. Eventually, in 1970, Japan became the fourth among the first countries able to launch their own satellites to orbit, after the USSR, the United States and France. www.spacetoday.org /Japan/Japan/History.html   (764 words)

Jaxa Official Blogger's Question. - Unmanned Spaceflight.com The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) would like to announce Japan's space agency announced last month it will delay until 2010 the return of a star-crossed probe sent to collect samples from an asteroid because a thruster problem put the vehicle into an unexpected spin, reports the AP. Japan's latest H-2A rocket the black, orange and white launch vehicle that is the centerpiece of this country's space program is intended to put the four-ton Advanced Land Observation Satellite into orbit. www.unmannedspaceflight.com /index.php?showtopic=1733   (1031 words)

Hayabusa: Japan's Asteroid Mission Aborts Release of Lander - Planetary News The Planetary Society The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa-- the world's first mission to attempt to land on an asteroid, collect samples, and return them to Earth – did not carry out the planned release of its lander Friday or the final part of its rehearsal for two brief landings scheduled for later this month. Around noon Japan Standard Time (JST) [7 p.m., November 3 Pacific Standard Time (PST)], mission controllers, who had detected "an anomalous signal" at the critical Go/NoGo timepoint, aborted both the release of the target marker and Minerva, the lander. Hayabusa: Japan's Asteroid Mission Aborts Release of Lander - Planetary News www.planetary.org /news/2005/1104_Hayabusa_Japans_Asteroid_Mission.html   (330 words)

ESA Portal - Press Releases - ESA joins forces with Japan on new infrared sky surveyor It was developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (ISAS/JAXA), with the participation of Nagoya University, the University of Tokyo, the National Institute of Information & Communications Technology and other Japanese universities and institutes. A high-capability new infrared satellite, ASTRO-F, was successfully launched last night by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The European Space Agency and Europe have a strong tradition in infrared astronomy, which is now being continued by the participation of the UK, the Netherlands and ESA in ASTRO-F. ESA is providing network support through its ground station in Kiruna (Sweden) for a few passes per day. www.esa.int /esaCP/Pr_5_2006_p_EN.html   (1241 words)

CBC News: Japan unveils 20-year plan to visit the moon The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said it will have a rocket capable of carrying humans into space within 10 years. TOKYO- Japan's space agency said it plans to develop a manned spacecraft and send it to the moon within the next 20 years. Another part of the aerospace program is a passenger airliner that will travel at Mach 2 or twice the speed of sound, to fly people between Tokyo and Los Angeles in five hours. www.cbc.ca /story/science/national/2005/04/06/Japan-moon050406.html   (438 words)

cooltech.iafrica.com space Japan enters space race — in fashion A special team of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has launched a feasibility study due to be completed by March. Japan will use its computer and fiber knowhow to design gear weighing 20 kilograms (44 pounds), down from the burdensome 120 kilograms (265 pounds) of the current US-made outfit, a space agency official said. Japan hopes to become the third nation to produce a space suit, using its technology to design a slimmer outfit for the next US mission to the moon. cooltech.iafrica.com /space/727484.htm   (296 words)

USATODAY.com - Japan to delay return of asteroid probe The Hayabusa probe, now hovering several miles off the surface of the Itokawa asteroid, originally was expected to return to Earth in June 2007, said Yashiro Kiyotaka, public affairs director at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA. TOKYO &; Japan's space agency will delay until 2010 the return of a star-crossed probe sent to collect samples from an asteroid because a thruster problem put the vehicle into an unexpected spin, an agency official said Wednesday. The agency had until Dec. 10 to start the return procedure, but a thruster problem sent the probe into a spin, causing it to lose contact with JAXA, Yashiro said. usatoday.com /tech/science/space/2005-12-14-japan-probe-delay_x.htm?...   (399 words)

Earth Imaging Journal The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency announced Oct. 31, 2003, that the possibility of restoring Midori-II operations is “extremely slim.” To obtain the data, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency developed a radio sensor for the mission called the ALOS is expected to play an important role in cartography by providing maps of Japan and other countries, including those in the Asia-Pacific region, which is one of the mission’s main objectives. www.eijournal.com /Missions_Japan.asp   (359 words)

Japan moots manned Moon base The Register The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is once again talking big after the H-2A mission went some way to restoring faith in the country's space programme. Japan's space agency has announced the possibility of developing a shuttle-style space vehicle by 2025 and eventually constructing a manned Moon base - hot on the heels of last Saturday's successful launch of a H-2A rocket carrying a navigation and meteorological satellite. Despite this, and the high cost of launches (Saturday's mission swallowed around 9.4bn yen or $89m), Japan is keen to press on with its programme. www.theregister.co.uk /2005/02/28/japanese_space_plans   (342 words)

Japan Surrendering Moon To Robots The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency imagines a future where humanoid robots populate a lunar base in 2025. Japan's space agency has developed a 20-year plan, intended to help fulfill that mission. According to PC World Australia, the agency's plan falls in line with that announced by US President George W. Bush, who wants to see America and its partner nations build a lunar base by 2020. www.webpronews.com /news/ebusinessnews/wpn-45-20050622JapanSurrenderingMoonToRobots.html   (354 words)

ABS-CBN Interactive The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said the latest satellite, to be used to detect new objects in space, successfully entered orbit shortly after liftoff. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY NO SALES REUTERS/Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)/Handout It is Japan's second successful launch in less than a week and an additional boost to a space program plagued by a string of mishaps in recent years. www.abs-cbnnews.com /storypage.aspx?StoryId=30625   (948 words)

JAXA HISTORY On October 1, 2003, ISAS, NAL and NASDA were merged into one independent administrative institution: the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). This also means that the best of Japan's advanced modern aerospace technologies are gathered together - a concentration of technologies that is expected to create new energy to propel Japan's efforts challenges to space. JAXA endeavors to add a new page to the history of aerospace development, putting Japan on the same footing as other space-technology advanced nations. www.jaxa.jp /about/history/index_e.html   (212 words)

ScienceDaily: Japan Deploys Solar Sail Film In Space NASA Telescope Launched On Japanese Space Observatory (July 14, 2005)-- A pioneering X-ray detector, developed jointly by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., and the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) of the Japan Aerospace Exploration... Space exploration -- Space exploration is the physical exploration of outer space objects and generally anything that involves the technologies, science, and politics regarding space... Japan's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science succeeded in deploying a big thin film for solar sail in space for the first time in the world. www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2004/08/040810102738.htm   (1563 words)

Profile of JAXA's Astronauts Selected by the National Space Development Agency of Japan (now referred to as the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA) in 1985, he flew aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor, STS-47, as a first Japanese astronaut to perform Japan-United States cooperative experiments with his NASA crewmembers on the Spacelab-J mission in 1992. In April 1992, Dr. Wakata was selected to be an astronaut candidate by the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA, currently Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) for the assembly and operation of the International Space Station (ISS) and the Japanese Experiment Module "Kibo". Mohri was born in 1948, in Yoichi, Hokkaido, Japan. iss.sfo.jaxa.jp /astro/profile_e.html   (2238 words)

NASA - STS-114 Crew Visits Japan JSC2005-E-40330 (1 October 2005)--- Japanese Aerospace and Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi discusses his flight on the mission that returned the Space Shuttle to flight earlier this year with members of the public in Tokyo, Japan, on Oct. 1. The crew visited Japan this week as guests of the Japan Aerospace and Exploration Agency (JAXA) and participated in a variety of public events. Noguchi and the rest of the crew of Discovery for STS-114 visited Japan as guests of JAXA and participated in a variety of public events. www.nasa.gov /returntoflight/multimedia/japan_gallery.html   (331 words)

ESA Portal - International Charter ‘Space and Major Disasters’ welcomes Japanese space agency as latest member The International Charter 'Space and Major Disasters' yesterday welcomed the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) as its newest member, establishing a network of international space partners in disaster management that now encircles the globe. Each member agency has demonstrated its commitment to using space technology to serve humankind when it is most in need of assistance—when disasters of both natural and human origin strike the world’s communities or wreak havoc on the environment. Following the UNISPACE III conference held in Vienna, Austria in July 1999, the European and French space agencies (ESA and CNES) initiated the International Charter ‘Space and Major Disasters’, with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) signing the Charter on 20 October 2000. www.esa.int /esaCP/SEM7KAYEM4E_index_0.html   (535 words)

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