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

Everything went smoothly and the satellite successfully separated from the rocket as planned about 29 minutes after the ...

Japan successfully launched the Michibiki 6 navigation satellite aboard an H3 rocket, further advancing its QZSS network.

The H-3 was unable to put the Earth-observation satellite Daichi-3 into its scheduled orbit, which was lost in the failure. Some anomaly is believed to have occurred. JAXA is investigating the ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Himawari 8, the Japan Meteorological Agency satellite, takes an image of Earth every ten minutes. This is a 24-hour cycle of its images. Video courtesy of National ...

TANEGASHIMA, Kagoshima Prefecture--The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) turned to a tried-and ... the X-ray astronomy satellite XRISM was placed in orbit, and 33 minutes later, the ...

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 ...

GPM data was overlaid on Japan's Himawari-8 satellite infrared imagery. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing ...

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 ...