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Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

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JAXA's SLIM lunar lander has sparked an era of precision landings crucial for future crewed exploration.

Mentioned as: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)Narrative GeneralFeb 10, 2025What makes a lunar landing mission “successful”?

JAXA provided a press update within two hours of the SLIM landing accepting its outcomes.

Mentioned as: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)Narrative GeneralFeb 10, 2025What makes a lunar landing mission “successful”?

The JAXA-NASA partnership includes implications for the Artemis program.

Mentioned as: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)Narrative GeneralFeb 10, 2025What makes a lunar landing mission “successful”?

JAXA’s SLIM mission launched in September 2023 and landed in January 2024.

Mentioned as: JAXATechnical ProductFeb 6, 2025ISRO provided ground tracking support for Intuitive Machines’ NASA CLPS Moon landing

ISRO has publicly known cooperation arrangements with JAXA and Roscosmos.

Mentioned as: jaxaNarrative GeneralFeb 6, 2025ISRO provided ground tracking support for Intuitive Machines’ NASA CLPS Moon landing

ISRO has publicly known cooperation arrangements with JAXA and Roscosmos but not with ispace Japan.

Mentioned as: jaxaNarrative GeneralFeb 3, 2025Moon Monday #211: A long march of lunar papers from China, and mission updates

JAXA's SLIM spacecraft launched in September 2023 and landed in January 2024.

Mentioned as: JAXATechnical ProductFeb 3, 2025Moon Monday #211: A long march of lunar papers from China, and mission updates

JAXA’s SLIM lunar lander achieved higher landing precision and more successful payload operations than Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus by technical measures.

Mentioned as: JAXATechnical ProductJan 13, 2025Moon Monday #208: What makes a lunar landing mission “successful”?

The book mentions JAXA’s SLIM lander and the Artemis lunar exploration campaign.

Mentioned as: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)Narrative GeneralJan 13, 2025Review: Manned and Unmanned Flights to the Moon

JAXA honored the explicit pre-launch success criteria it had defined for the SLIM mission.

Mentioned as: JAXATechnical ProductJan 13, 2025Moon Monday #208: What makes a lunar landing mission “successful”?

JAXA provided a press update within two hours of SLIM’s landing that acknowledged the mission’s mixed outcomes.

Mentioned as: jaxaNarrative GeneralJan 13, 2025Moon Monday #208: What makes a lunar landing mission “successful”?

A solid rocket motor developed for the Epsilon S rocket exploded during a 2024-11-25 static-fire test at a JAXA facility.

Mentioned as: jaxaNarrative GeneralDec 18, 2024Second Kairos launch fails

Astroscale independently designed the 2024-11-30 15-meter approach as an ambitious objective in addition to JAXA’s baseline mission requirements.

Mentioned as: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)Org RelationshipDec 12, 2024Astroscale’s ADRAS-J achieves historic 15 meter approach to space debris

JAXA is supporting the ArkEdge Space lunar navigation project with up to 5,000,000,000 JPY over four years.

Mentioned as: jaxaNarrative GeneralDec 3, 2024ArkEdge Space selected by JAXA to develop lunar navigation system

JAXA selected ArkEdge Space under its Space Strategy Fund to lead the development of advanced lunar navigation technology.

Mentioned as: JAXAOrg RelationshipDec 3, 2024ArkEdge Space selected by JAXA to develop lunar navigation system

The RESILIENCE lunar lander was shipped from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency facility in Tsukuba, Japan to Florida via commercial cargo plane.

Mentioned as: Japan Aerospace Exploration AgencyTechnical ProductNov 27, 2024ispace Mission 2 RESILIENCE lunar lander Arrives in Florida for Final Launch Preparations

NASA projected the Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) will not be ready until at least late this decade and projected JAXA’s larger pressurized rover to launch no earlier than fiscal year 2032.

Mentioned as: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)Narrative PlanNov 26, 2024NASA outlines impacts of VIPER on CLPS lunar lander program

NASA stated it would consider flying VIPER’s instruments on the Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) that it is developing with industry as well as on a larger pressurized rover that JAXA is providing.

Mentioned as: JAXAOrg RelationshipNov 26, 2024NASA outlines impacts of VIPER on CLPS lunar lander program

An engine being developed for use in JAXA’s Epsilon S small rocket exploded during a combustion test at the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture on 2024-11-26.

Mentioned as: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)Narrative GeneralNov 26, 2024Kyodo News: Japan rocket engine explodes during test for the 2nd time in 16 months

The European Space Agency and JAXA will examine opportunities for cooperation and collaboration across a range of space projects, including lunar exploration.

Mentioned as: JAXAOrg RelationshipNov 25, 2024Moon Monday #203: Artemis updates, China and Luna, ESA<>JAXA, and more
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