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ispace’s HAKUTO-R Mission 2 RESILIENCE flight model completed thermal vacuum testing at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Tsukuba Space Center in Tsukuba, Japan.
Joshua Daish supported the return of JAXA’s Hayabusa 2 capsule during his tenure at Woomera Test Range Aerodrome.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched the ESA and JAXA EarthCARE (Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation Explorer) mission on Tuesday, 2024-05-28 at 3:10 p.m. PDT from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
EarthCARE is equipped with four instruments that work together: an atmospheric lidar, a cloud profiling radar provided by JAXA, a multispectral imager, and a broadband radiometer.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) provided a cloud profiling radar for EarthCARE at a cost of 8,300,000,000 JPY ($53,000,000).
EarthCARE’s cloud profiling radar is provided by JAXA and provides information on the vertical structure, motion, and internal dynamics of clouds.
The EarthCARE mission, a joint Earth science mission of ESA and JAXA, is scheduled to launch on 2024-05-28 on a Falcon 9 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
JAXA launched the X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) in September 2023.
NASA and JAXA plan to operate Resolve as-is for at least the next 18 months despite the stuck gate valve.
Based on the contract agreed between Japan and the United States, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will provide the rover for the Artemis mission in the early 2030s.
The Japan–U.S. agreement on Artemis dated 2024-04-10 assigns JAXA a role to provide a pressurized rover for Artemis missions starting in the early 2030s.
JAXA selected Astroscale for the second phase of its Commercial Removal of Debris Demonstration (CRD2) program on 2024-04-25.
ADRAS-J was selected by JAXA for Phase I of its Commercial Removal of Debris Demonstration (CRD2) program.
Astroscale Japan has been selected for Phase II of JAXA’s CRD2 program.
JAXA grounded the H-2A launch vehicle while investigating the H3 electrical failure and later resumed H-2A launches in September 2023, successfully launching an X-ray astronomy satellite and a lunar lander.
The JAXA cloud profiling radar (CPR) uses radio waves to analyze the internal structure of thick clouds.
The EarthCARE satellite was developed by Airbus for the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
JAXA is developing a large pressurized lunar rover called 'Lunar Cruiser' to support two astronauts for extended missions.
JAXA President Hiroshi Yamakawa participated in the 2024-04-09 signing at NASA Headquarters.
Koichi Wakata officially retired from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency on 2024-03-31.