The Japanese government has established a Space Strategy Fund (SSF) to subsidize research and development in space technology ...

Japan sees a stable, commercially competitive space transport capability as key to its space program and national security and has been developing two new flagship rockets as successors to the ...

Japan’s space program JAXA has had a very eventful 24 hours. The group’s Hayabusa2 asteroid probe, which arrived at its target Ryugu last year, performed its most challenging maneuver yet by ...

The coming ispace lunar landing would mark a paradigm shift in space operations – something Japan has seen coming for over a decade. The company, ispace, is one of the first private entities to ...

It was just a couple of weeks ago that the Japan space program, JAXA, announced that its Hayabusa2 probe had successfully completed a maneuver never before attempted in space. The spacecraft ...

Japan's Astroscale , a company specialised in removing orbital junk, has agreed with Bengaluru-based space companies Digantara and Bellatrix Aerospace to collaborate on technology and services, it ...

Takuya Onishi and three fellow crew members embarked Friday on a mission to the International Space Station aboard ...

compared to six currently planned by the government-led space program. Japan’s space development programs are led by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, and industry leaders such as ...

Fifty years after the end of the Apollo program, a Japanese space development start-up firm is poised to make history again, as part of the first lunar exploration program led by a private company.

The State Department notified Congress this week of a potential $200 million foreign military sale to support Japan’s Hyper ...

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