JAXA PRESS RELEASE The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) would like to announce that Astronaut Akihiko Hoshide has been selected as a crew ... by Japanese scientists and international partners at the ISS. (...) Read the rest of JAXA Chooses Akihiko Hoshide for ISS Mission (131 words) ... del.icio.us Post tags: human spaceflight, ISS, JAXA, space station Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh

... about sending the messages of regular people into space, and JAXA are about to do it for Venus, as explained in the story below. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is enhancing people's interest in space and the Earth by holding a message campaign ... single place and injected into the orbit of Venus. Through this campaign JAXA aims to boost the public's knowledge about ...

The Japanese GX expendable rocket project, which has suffered various delays and overruns in the past, may finally be killed due to budget cuts: Budget-cutting committee wants to kill JAXA's GX rocket project - The Japan Times Online (via spacetoday.net). Note that Japan's public debt is one of the highest in the world,, though it is ameliorated to some degree by very high private ...

Ideally, you'd like to have a space mission that faces no problems. But in the real world, spacecraft run into trouble. Trouble has come time and again to JAXA's little Hayabusa asteroid sample return mission, yet the mission's engineers always come up with new and creative ways to solve problems. Just last week, I reported on what seemed like a fatal blow to the mission, the ...

... 1 GW by 2030. The total cost of the JAXA project will be $21 billion. This sum is financed ... generated will be sent to the earth via beams of microwaves or laser. JAXA says that these beams will be gathered at restricted areas of dam ... solid results will be available. According to Tatsuhito Fujita, a researcher at JAXA says the timeframe allocated will be necessary for the design and research required ...

... advanced satellite-based forest observation. JAXA's Kyoto and Carbon Initiative has been instrumental ... provision of the MODIS and IceSAT data and the processing of JAXA's ALOS PALSAR data. The combination ... Research Center's work, in partnership with JAXA and NASA. Systematically generated data sets ... project of the Woods Hole Research Center, JAXA's Kyoto and Carbon Initiative, NASA ...

... systems, including the atmosphere. “This joint NASA/JAXA mission is scientifically important and stands as a prime example ... strong scientific and technical collaborations developed between NASA and JAXA. GPM instruments will also provide key calibration references ... data sets,” the American expert says. NASA and JAXA have collaborated on previous flights before, inclu... (read more ...

... between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), GPM will usher in a new generation of space-based ... of freshwater. GPM is an international collaboration that currently includes NASA and JAXA, with anticipated contributions from additional international partners. ... scientific and technical collaborations developed between NASA and JAXA. GPM instruments will also provide key calibration ...

... to capture the satellite. Takao Doi NASDA/JAXA Astronaut Born September 18, 1954 Other ... spaceflight Mission Specialist 3 Takao Doi, JAXA First spaceflight Payload Specialist Leonid Kadeniuk, ... to capture the satellite. Takao Doi NASDA/JAXA Astronaut Born September 18, 1954 Other ... spaceflight Mission Specialist 3 Takao Doi, JAXA First spaceflight Payload Specialist Leonid Kadeniuk, ...

... rosy in Japan, where the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is getting a “frosty reception” from the new government, the ... and “vague risk assessments” of JAXA programs, despite a number of recent successes, such as the H-2B rocket ... . The government is recommending a 10-percent cut for JAXA, which agency officials fear could jeopardize their commitments to supporting ...

... media Friday the planetary probe Akatsuki, which will attempt to travel to Venus to examine its climate. JAXA plans to launch the rectangular probe — 2.1 meters in height, 1.45 meters in ... that is extremely hot due to the greenhouse effect and is covered by sulfuric acid clouds, JAXA said. Yen On The RiseThe Bank of Japan inquired about exchange rates Friday at commercial banks in Tokyo ...

... the most familiar features of the Moon's Near Side. This was done by downloading the video of that area posted up to JAXA's channel on YouTube, but the result (while interesting) can't hold a candle to the still JAXA posted to its own site earlier this past week. Chuck linked to the Kaguya Gallery to his discussion of another of ...

... ;t heard of). The missions, and my shorter summary of their nature and aims, are: SPICA: Joint ESA/JAXA infrared space telescope (5 to 210 micron wavelength range) with a 3.5m primary mirror. Euclid: Map ... close-in orbit (as close as 48 Solar radii, it claims).Marco Polo: Joint ESA/JAXA sample return mission from a near-earth asteroid. Note the high cost!Cross-Scale: Study MHD plasma properties in ...

... the Suzaku orbiting X-ray observatory, a joint operation of NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), astronomers studying the central region of the Perseus galaxy cluster discovered "the largest known reservoir of rare ... X-ray telescope to detect chromium and manganese. The image is about two degrees wide, or four times the apparent width of a full moon. (image credit: JAXA)

... Gas & Electric (PG&E) by 2016. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has also teamed up with a private Japanese coalition to design a solar space station for launch by the 2030s. ... orbit. Hoffert approved of Japan's own space solar power effort, led by JAXA, which would test both RF technology and lasers as means of energy transmission. He envisions the possibility of space ...