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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) signed a contract with Japan’s ispace, inc. under which ispace will provide lunar payload delivery, operations, and data acquisition services.
MMA HaWK arrays will support five small satellites launching on the first Space Launch System (SLS) launch later in 2021: NASA’s LunaH-Map, Lunar Flashlight, Near Earth Asteroid Scout (NEAScout), BioSentinel, and JAXA’s EQUULEUS.
The Crew-1 spacecraft remained at the International Space Station and was scheduled to return with NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi on 2021-04-28.
The Crew-1 spacecraft is scheduled to depart the International Space Station on 2021-04-28, returning NASA’s Shannon Walker, Victor Glover, and Michael Hopkins and JAXA’s Soichi Noguchi to Earth.
The U.S. Space Fence, JAXA’s SSA, and the EU Space Surveillance & Traffic (EUSST) programs are increasing competition in the SSA market.
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet will join Expedition 65 as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 later 2021-04.
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Crew-2 is scheduled to launch 2021-04-22 to transport NASA’s Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, ESA’s Thomas Pesquet, and JAXA’s Akihiko Hoshide to the ISS.
The commercial crew program allows the International Space Station to host seven people at a time, including four NASA astronauts and a fifth astronaut from JAXA.
NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, JAXA astronaut Aki Hoshide, and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet are scheduled to launch to the station on Crew-2.
ISRO and JAXA are working on an implementing arrangement to carry NASA’s Laser Reflectometer Array (LRA) on Chandrayaan-3.
ISRO and JAXA have planned a joint Lunar Polar Exploration mission (LUPEX) to explore the Moon’s south pole in 2023.
Nearly half of Japan’s planned 2021 space budget, 212,400,000,000 JPY, is allocated to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, which controls JAXA.
Japan allocated 3,400,000,000 JPY in the fiscal year 2021 space budget to develop the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM), a lunar lander being developed by JAXA.
NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi will perform the 2021-03-05 spacewalk to carry out several maintenance tasks outside the station.
The SpaceX Crew-2 commercial crew mission is scheduled to launch no earlier than 2021-04-20 and will transport astronauts from NASA, ESA, and JAXA to the International Space Station.
On 2021-02-03, NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), and the Italian space agency ASI signed a statement of intent to cooperate on the International Mars Ice Mapper mission.
Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi will return to Earth in the Crew-1 spacecraft in late April or 2021-05-05 if Crew-2 launches on its current schedule.
JAXA found fatigue fracture surfaces in the LE-9 combustion chamber and turbopump blades and is working on LE-9 certification.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will provide batteries for the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) module being built by Northrop Grumman.
The Crew-2 mission expected to launch in the spring of 2021 will fly two NASA astronauts, one ESA astronaut, and one JAXA astronaut.