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Japan’s Moon Sniper: JAXA has a bag of clever tricks to ensure SLIM module’s successful landing

Japan's JAXA has many clever tricks in its bag to increase the chances of its SLIM module successfully executing a Precise Landing on the Moon. For example, the module that JAXA sent is tiny. It has a mass of 120kg whereas ISRO's Vikram had a mass of 1750kg

Japan aims for the Moon, Stars: Launches lunar mission, space telescope to fathom cosmos’ origin

Japan is on the verge of making history as it attempts to be the fifth country to soft-land on the Moon with its SLIM lunar mission. It has also launched a mission to study the origin of the universe using a XRISM space telescope

Japan eyes fifth spot in elite space club, ‘moon sniper’ to attempt landing on lunar surface tomorrow

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) mission is scheduled to take off from the Tanegashima Space Centre in southern Japan on Thursday, according to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which oversees launches for JAXA and has built the H-IIA rocket carrying the lander

Japan’s space ambitions crash and burn as new H3 rocket fails after engine issue

Japan’s space mission JAXA or Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency faced a major setback as its new medium-lift rocket failed on its debut flight in space on Tuesday after the launcher's second-stage engine did not ignite as planned.

Japan next generation H3 rocket fails after liftoff, space agency issues destruct command

The failure is a blow for Japan's space agency JAXA, after the rocket failed to even lift off on its first trial last month

Japan aborts launch of first next-generation rocket moments before lift off

The H3 launch was put off from earlier in the week due to weather after more than a two-year postponement from 2020 because of an engine development delay.

Joint Euro-Japan spacecraft BepiColombo got its first view of Mercury, completed one of six flybys

The joint mission was launched in 2018 and it flew once past Earth and twice past Venus on its journey to the solar system’s smallest planet.

Astroscale signs contract with Rocket Lab to launch its orbital debris removal demo mission in 2023

The Electron rocket will launch the Active Debris Removal by Astroscale-Japan satellite for the first phase of JAXA's Commercial Removal of Debris Demonstration Project.

Two spacecrafts to visit Earth's hot neighbor Venus this week

On Monday, ESA's Solar Orbiter probe will visit Venus and about 33 hours later, European-Japanese spacecraft BepiColombo will get a closer look.

Four astronauts splash down at night for the first time since 1968 in SpaceX crew dragon

The four astronauts on Crew-1 are NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Michael Hopkins, Shannon Walker and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi.