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JAXA will provide technical expertise for verification analysis to support GITAI’s on-orbit technology demonstration.
JAXA will support GITAI’s operations through technical cooperation on space robotics.
NASA currently plans to launch the next commercial crew mission, Crew-1, on 2020-08-30 with four astronauts from NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) aboard.
Astroscale was selected as the commercial partner for Phase I of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s first debris removal project in February 2020.
NASA announced a four-person crew for the first operational Crew Dragon mission on 2020-03-31 that features three NASA astronauts and one astronaut from the Japanese space agency JAXA.
JAXA scheduled an H2B launch for 2020-05-22 to deliver the Kounotori-9 cargo shuttle to the International Space Station.
Sky Perfect JSAT operates 19 geostationary communications satellites and the SDS-4 experimental ship-tracking smallsat in low Earth orbit inherited from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
The contract gives Astroscale until 2023-03-31 to complete the inspection mission for JAXA's CRD2 program.
A follow-on contract under JAXA’s Commercial Removal of Debris Demonstration 2 program would give Astroscale until 2026-03-31 to deorbit the spent upper stage.
JAXA is developing the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) mission to demonstrate precision landings, with SLIM scheduled to launch in late 2021 or early 2022.
JAXA’s budget for the 2020 fiscal year, which starts 2020-04-01, is 188,800,000,000 JPY ($1,730,000,000), an increase of 2.2% over 2019.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency selected Mitsubishi Electric to build a 100-kilogram satellite that would set the foundation for a constellation-grade satellite capable of serial production.
The joint European and Japanese BepiColombo orbiter launched last year on a seven-year journey to Mercury using four electric thrusters from QinetiQ.
Finalists for Breakthrough of the Year included SpaceX’s Starlink, NASA’s Green Propellant Infusion Mission, JAXA’s Hayabusa-2, China’s Chang’e 4 lunar landing, Spaceflight’s SSO-A SmallSat Express rideshare mission, Spektr-RG, and Northrop Grumman’s MEV-1 satellite servicing mission.
NASA and JAXA will cooperate on payloads and data sharing for the Smart Lander for Investigating the Moon (SLIM) mission scheduled for launch in 2021.
NASA will cooperate on a joint lunar mission between JAXA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in 2023 to study the lunar poles.
Neither Mitsubishi Heavy Industries nor the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency set a new launch date for the HTV-8 mission after the 2019-09-10 platform fire.
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency agreed to transfer a 50-kilogram demonstration satellite SDS-4 to Sky Perfect JSAT.
Space BD was selected by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in May 2018 to be the commercial provider of satellite deployment service from the Kibo Japanese Experiment Module of the ISS.
Space BD was selected by JAXA in May 2018 to become the commercial provider of satellite deployment services from the Kibo Japanese Experiment Module of the International Space Station.