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Astronomers say that one of the stars they discovered during a 2010 survey of the night sky is currently spraying large amounts of dust into its surrounding area. We may be witnessing the process through which stars seed the Universe with the building blocks of other stars, planets or life.
It is well known that hyd... |
27 April 2012
03:12 GMT |
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The Astro-H X-ray Telescope reached a critical milestone recently, when officials from the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) signed a document cementing their collaboration for this project. The mission is also known as the New X-Ray Telescope, or NeXT. Its main purpose w... |
11 April 2012
03:38 GMT |
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From March to July, the International Space Station will be bogged down by significant space traffic. A total of six spacecraft will make their way to the orbital outpost, if all goes according to plan. Yet another docking procedure is scheduled to occur on September 3. The Japanese, Europeans and Russians, plus two... |
22 March 2012
17:31 GMT |
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A collaboration of researchers from the Okayama University and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) reports that constant collisions and bombardments by particles varying in size are responsible for making planets and space rocks grow. The new research paper, published in the latest issue of the esteemed j... |
5 March 2012
02:22 GMT |
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The NEC Corporation, in Tokyo, has recently announced that work to create a successor for the Hayabusa sample-return spacecraft has begun. The company is developing Hayabusa-2 for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), targeting a 2014 launch date.
The first Hayabusa (Japanese for peregrine falcon) launched... |
2 March 2012
16:31 GMT |
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The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) space-borne NASA Core Observatory, currently scheduled for launch in 2014, just received one of its new instruments, called the Microwave Imager. The GMI was built and tested by the Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., which has just finished work on it recently. The camera... |
2 March 2012
07:08 GMT |
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For the past three years, experts at the NASA Glenn Research Center have been working on the Space Communications and Navigation Testbed (SCaN Testbed). If successfully tested, this instrument will innovate the way communications are carried out in space.
The device will be delivered to the International Space Stat... |
15 February 2012
02:51 GMT |
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As an additional testimony that the Sun is nearing a peak in its 11-year cycle, a new X-class solar flare erupted from its surface on January 27, 2012. The X class represents the most powerful instance of such an event, which usually produces vast amounts of charged particles.
At this point, there is no word from N... |
7 February 2012
08:27 GMT |
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All space agencies in the world managed to conduct only 5 or 6 successful sample-return missions since 1969. RosCosmos was the most active, sending 7 spacecraft, and succeeding with 3. But the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) sent only one, and succeeded. Following the success of the first Hayabusa mission, ... |
1 February 2012
11:52 GMT |
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Less than a week from now, experts at the American space agency are scheduled to begin a series of research flights above Canada, whose main purpose is to analyze the snowstorms forming at different locations. This will provide an interesting proxy for analyzing snowfall from space.
This endeavor is a part of the p... |
13 January 2012
03:06 GMT |
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After an anomaly that occurred on May 24 affected the power generation system aboard the Akari infrared space telescope, officials at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) finally admitted defeat. They announced last week that the telescope has been shut down after 5+ years of mission.
The spacecraft was la... |
29 November 2011
10:01 GMT |
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In a paper published in last month's issue of the esteemed Astrophysical Journal Letters, experts propose that black holes can suffer from what they plastically refer to as indigestion. The phenomenon only occurs during prolonged sessions on accreting matter non-stop.
Astrophysicists say that black holes that a... |
17 November 2011
08:23 GMT |
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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are happy to announce that the newly-installed Super Sensitive High Definition TV (SS-HDTV) cameras installed on the facility are now observing Earth in an unprecedented level of detail.
Looking at the planet from afar is one of the main reasons why astronauts chose... |
3 November 2011
10:16 GMT |
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About 5 days ago, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) celebrated the launch of its Hinode solar observatory, a 5-year-old telescope that has provided solar physicists with a new understanding of the Sun and its characteristics.
As evidenced by the December 6, 2006, image attached to this article, the obser... |
2 November 2011
09:50 GMT |
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On Friday, September 23, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) managed to launch a new spy satellite to Earth's orbit. The successful maneuver marked another expansion in the Asian nation's orbital capabilities, which are already rather extensive.
One of the primary uses Japanese spy satellite ha... |
28 September 2011
02:38 GMT |
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In December 2010, the Akatsuki space probe developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) overshoot Venus, after it was unable to break sufficiently fast to allow for the planet's gravitational pull to take it into a stable orbit.
The failure came as a shock for JAXA, since it was its second spac... |
10 September 2011
04:05 GMT |
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A collaboration of American agencies are working together to analyze the amount of carbon being released from a dry lake bed in Railroad Valley, Nevada. The team is also concerned about how much of the dangerous greenhouse gas is emitted from the area surrounding the lake bed. The multi-institute team conducted its r... |
8 July 2011
07:34 GMT |
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After spending more than five years in Earth's orbit, a Japanese spacecraft was declared dead in orbit yesterday, May 12. Officials say that the vehicle suffered an unexpected error about three weeks ago, from which it was apparently unable to recover. The spacecraft, known as the Advanced Land Observing Satelli... |
13 May 2011
03:49 GMT |
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On Tuesday, March 29, the H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV-2) will be deorbited intentionally. The spacecraft will meet a fiery end, disintegrating in Earth's atmosphere, but not before conducting a series of experiments that will yield more insight into this destructive process. The unmanned cargo capsule was detache... |
28 March 2011
09:54 GMT |
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Engineers in Japan were able to repair the Tsukuba Space Center (TSC), the country's primary control room for segments of the International Space Station, unmanned space capsules and astronaut training.
The facility was restored to normal operations just 11 days after the massive, magnitude 9.0 earthquake tha... |
25 March 2011
03:52 GMT |
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Equipping delivery systems with artificial intelligence may be one of the best possible methods of reducing the launch costs currently keeping this industry in check. Eliminating this hurdle could lead to a boost in space activities, with all the advantages this entails. According to specialists, using AI on rockets ... |
22 March 2011
03:28 GMT |
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Following the devastating 8.9-magnitude earthquake that struck Japan on March 11, the nation's primary space center has gone offline due to damage and security issues. The center also included the control room for the Japanese section of the International Space Station (ISS).Shortly after the geological event to... |
12 March 2011
05:49 GMT |
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Solar physicists in Japan announce the discovery of two huge holes in the surface of the Sun. They say that the structures are most likely gateways through which the star expels matter and gas from its interior into its surroundings.
According to the research team, the new image was snapped using the Hinode satel... |
12 February 2011
04:02 GMT |
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Earlier today, January 3, representatives of the space agencies involved in the International Space Station (ISS) project met via teleconference to address issues related to the facility's future. The main idea behind the meeting was to allow for officials from these organizations to decide how to use the ISS as... |
3 February 2011
17:01 GMT |
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The next science mission to Mercury, the innermost planet in our solar system, will feature a spacecraft that will attempt to do what has never been done before, survey the planet from a low elliptical orbit. Plans are insert the satellite in an orbit that will take it between 400 and 1,500 kilometers (248 to 932 mil... |
31 January 2011
04:31 GMT |
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According to an official announcement, the resupply cargo spacecraft that Japan sent to the International Space Station last week managed to finally reach its destination yesterday, January 27, after five days of chasing the space lab in orbit.
The vehicle was captured at 6:41 am EST (1141 GMT), as confirmed by tw... |
28 January 2011
02:27 GMT |
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At around 6:44 am EST (1144 GMT), the crew of the International Space Station (ISS) is expected to make contact with a newly-launched Japanese resupply spacecraft. The cargo ship has been tracking the lab in orbit for several days, and it's only today that it will finally manage to catch up with it. The H-II Tra... |
27 January 2011
01:41 GMT |
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Officials at the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announce the successful launch of the Kounotori-2 H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV2) unmanned cargo spacecraft. The resupply capsule is currently heading towards the International Space Station (ISS).According to the official flight manifest, HTV2 is due to reac... |
22 January 2011
07:57 GMT |
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Officials with the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announce that the planned launch date for the HTV2 unmanned cargo ship has been changed to 12:37 am EST (17:37 GMT) on Saturday, January 22. This is the second H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV) constructed in Japan, and also the second spacecraft the country ... |
20 January 2011
11:31 GMT |
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According to the flight manifest governing all missions to and from the International Space Station (ISS), the next flight to launch for low-Earth orbit is that of the second H-II Transfer Vehicle, an unmanned cargo delivery spacecraft constructed by JAXA.The space probe features no automated docking controls of its ... |
7 January 2011
10:41 GMT |
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Last month, as a Venus-bound spacecraft of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) was attempting to achieve orbital insertion around our neighboring planet, a faulty engine valve caused the mission to fail. Now, JAXA officials say there may still be hope for the malfunctioning probe. After the original shock a... |
6 January 2011
03:43 GMT |
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Engineering teams conducted a series of experiments with a robotic arm aboard the International Space Station (ISS) last week, in a bid to determine whether the instrument is ready to handle a Japanese cargo capsule that will be launched in January. The assessments were passed with flying colors.
The Special Purp... |
29 December 2010
02:36 GMT |
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According to a proposal made earlier this year at a scientific conference, it may be that one of the most effective ways of changing the path of dangerous asteroids that may beheading our way would be to deploy solar sails to nudge them off-course.On May 21 of this year, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAX... |
23 December 2010
02:52 GMT |
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Space analysts in Japan believe that the nation's space agency may need to rethink its long-term space strategy and ambitions, following last week's failure to put a spacecraft in Venusian orbit.
This is the second of two probes to miss its target, after the spacecraft Nozomi swung past Mars in... |
18 December 2010
04:25 GMT |
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The Akatsuki space probe may have failed to achieve orbital insertion around Venus due to a collision with an impact object, or because one of its engine nozzles may have malfunctions, say investigators in Japan, quoted by news reports.
The spacecraft had spent more than 6 months traveling through space before arr... |
9 December 2010
02:33 GMT |
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According to officials at the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the Venus-bound orbiter the organization launched earlier this year swung past the planet on Monday, but failed to achieve orbital insertion.As such, the probe is now traveling through space without a clear target. Experts calculate that it w... |
8 December 2010
04:39 GMT |
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Official announcements from the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and various news outlets are reporting that the Venus orbiter Akatsuki had a major malfunction during maneuvers to enter orbit around its target.
At this point, the very fate of the mission is uncertain, experts managing the spacecraft s... |
7 December 2010
09:53 GMT |
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Now that the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has demonstrated the feasibility of solar sails for practical applications, NASA is eager to follow in its footsteps, having already launched its first such spacecraft. The Japanese agency launched the IKAROS demonstrator on May 21, 2010, aboard the same H-IIA... |
7 December 2010
03:55 GMT |
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On May 21, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) successfully launched its Akatsuki space probe, which is to become the first ever weather satellite around another planet. The spacecraft arrived at Venus, its primary target, on Monday, December 6.According to mission controllers, the event took place at ar... |
7 December 2010
03:04 GMT |
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The American space agency, in collaboration with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), announce the winners of the Venus Climate Orbiter Participating Scientist Program.The initiative was started by NASA so that it could provide assistance to Japanese colleagues managing the scientific return of the Akatsuki... |
24 November 2010
06:50 GMT |
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Experts with the Japanese Aerospace Explorations Agency (JAXA) announce that the Hayabusa sample-return mission did return artifacts from its trip to near-Earth asteroid 25143 Itokawa.The spacecraft returned to Earth on June 13, 2010, and landed in the Australian Outback. It spent 7 years flying through space, and at... |
18 November 2010
10:00 GMT |
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JAXA, the Japanese Space Agency announced today that Hayabusa, the spacecraft that touched the surface of asteroid Itokawa and came back to Earth, successfully brought back the first samples ever collected from the surface of an asteroid.The samples are small dust grains collected from asteroid Itokawa in 2005, and b... |
16 November 2010
10:34 GMT |
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Experts at JAXA announced that they have recovered a series of small particles from the sample chamber of the battered Hayabusa mission, which returned to Earth this June.They say that some of these small particles, which are invisible to the naked eye, may very well be extraterrestrial dust. If so, then the mission ... |
7 October 2010
08:48 GMT |
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This Tuesday, September 21, officials from all the space agencies involved in the International Space Station (ISS) project met via video-conference, to discuss the future of the outpost. At this point, plans call for the facility to be opened for science, and used for at least the next decade. All actors involved in... |
23 September 2010
08:49 GMT |
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The foundation of the Japanese Quasi-Zenith Satellite System has just been laid with the launch of a new navigations satellite, nicknamed Michibiki. The spacecraft took off Saturday from the Tanegashima Space Center (TSC).The facility is located on the southernmost of Japan's main islands, Kyushu. The Yoshinobu ... |
13 September 2010
04:29 GMT |
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Analysts believe that the launch of the new Japanese solar sail demonstrator Ikaros evidences the fact that the dawn of a new type of space exploration is upon us. They say that the spacecraft proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the technology is feasible, and that it could in the future be used to drive ships and ... |
2 September 2010
09:25 GMT |
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Officials at ESA and JAXA announced recently that they are considering plans to upgrade their existing unmanned space capsules, the ATV and HTV, with the ability to return things to Earth. In other words, the two agencies are looking forward towards designing and implementing measures that would ensure their spacecra... |
2 September 2010
03:02 GMT |
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Officials at the Japanese Space Activities Commission say that they have authorized experts to continue development work on the first successor of the sample-return probe Hayabusa. A new rocket called Epsilon has also received approval. The Commission is the board that is in charge of establishing the directions and ... |
21 August 2010
03:37 GMT |
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Officials at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announce that they were recently able to perform another premiere maneuver using the Ikaros solar sail. The spacecraft, which is the first successful prototype of its class, managed to turn while flying through deep space, all while using nothing more than th... |
7 August 2010
05:39 GMT |
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Solar sails could one day clarify Einstein's Theory of Relativity, as they could provide a platform for testing the frame-dragging hypothesis, physics professor Roman Kezerashvili of the New York City College of Technology stated. During the International Symposium on Solar Sailing held July 21 at the college, h... |
27 July 2010
05:13 GMT |
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