Japan has shut down its primary space center — including a control room for part of the International Space Station — after the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck the country Friday.

Tsukuba was shut down “due to damage and security issues caused by the earthquake,” JAXA said in a March 23 statement announcing the resumption of operations at the center’s Space Station ...

Tsukuba Space Center. DIRECTIONS: 2-1-1 Sengen, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki 305-8505. By train, take the JR Joban Line to Arakawaoki Station and get on the Kantetsu bus to Tsukuba Daigaku Chuo.

NEW DELHI: In a step towards unfurling India’s tricolour at the biggest space station, Indian astronaut-candidate Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla is set to pilot the Axiom-4 (Ax-4) mission to ...

TOKYO, September 12, 2024--To mark Japan’s national Space Day, ispace, inc. (ispace) (TOKYO: 9348), a global lunar exploration company, announced today that its Mission 2, featuring the ...

While being manipulated through the JAXA Tsukuba Space Center, the drone's footage is checked in real-time before being fed back to the onboard crew. Some of the released footage is below.