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 ...

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

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 ...

Among them was LignoSat, a wooden satellite from JAXA (Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency) that investigates the use of wood in space. Findings could offer a more sustainable alternative to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...