Part of that downtime fell during the cold of the moon's two-week night, mission officials announced ... the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in English. The electronics were operational ...

Watanabe monitored SLIM’s landing at JAXA’s mission control center. Its arrival on the moon was not enough for him to relax, given that LEV-2 was still tasked with recording and sending photos ...

Exploring the Moon with M2/Resilience Japan ... BepiColombo, a joint mission by ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA, will make its sixth flyby of Mercury in January 2025.

It is a Japanese-led commercial mission. Astronauts won't be walking on the moon until 2027, but you’ll see a lot of rockets heading there this year, part of an ambitious series of uncrewed ...

It means that we see the same side of the Moon that we have, and will continue to do so throughout our entire lives - so news ...

In the JAXA announcement ... become the first Japanese to land on the moon if they are assigned to NASA's Artemis program, a manned lunar probe mission. Yoneda formerly worked for the Japanese ...

Firefly's Blue Ghost lander, originally scheduled to lift off in late 2024, is on its maiden voyage. The uncrewed spacecraft is expected to travel for 45 days before trying to touch down in early ...