Japan launched a navigation satellite early Sunday morning (Feb. 2), the nation's first liftoff of 2025. An H3 rocket ...

Japan has launched a navigation satellite on its flagship H3 rocket as the country seeks to have a precise positioning system ...

Japan’s space agency announced plans for seven or more lift-offs annually of its flagship H3 rocket from the Kagoshima ...

Japan's space agency plans to use satellite images to quickly evaluate damage from earthquakes and other natural disasters. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, has said it expects the ...

Among their accomplishments was documenting the historic landing of JAXA's Smart Lander for Investigating ... it the first robot to traverse Earth's satellite or any celestial body with gravity ...

The tiny satellite, developed by scientists at Kyoto University in collaboration with Sumitomo Forestry, a logging company, aims to address the environmental impact of metallic particles from ...

or JAXA. Officials said it is expected to reach its targeted geospatial orbit in about two weeks. Japan currently has the quasi-zenith satellite system, or QZSS, with four satellites for a ...