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

Daichi Fujii from the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan captured a meteor impact the moon with multiple telescopes. Credit: ...

The Space Systems Command said Tuesday Japan’s Quasi-Zenith Satellite 6, or QZS-6, carried a U.S. space domain awareness payload as it was launched on Feb. 2 from the Yoshinobu Launch Complex at the ...

Japan launched a navigation satellite early Sunday morning (Feb. 2), the nation's first liftoff of 2025. An H3 rocket launched the Michibiki 6 spacecraft from Tanegashima Space Center on Sunday at ...

While Resilience and Blue Ghost are in orbit and preparing to leave for the moon, another lunar lander — Intuitive Machines ' IM-2, or Athena — recently arrived at Cape Canaveral to loaded atop of a ...

On December 4, 2024, the US Space Force (USSF) activated a new unit at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo to support the operations of US Forces Japan in the space domain. At a meeting the previous ...

The launch was Japan’s first of 2025. Meanwhile, the Resilience lander from Japanese private space exploration firm ispace launched Jan. 15 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The lander is currently ...

TOKYO — Japan’s space agency said on Sunday it successfully launched a navigation satellite on its new flagship H3 rocket as the country seeks to have a more precise location positioning ...

The Colorado Springs-based Space Foundation is helping Japan strengthen its ties with the U.S. space industry. Space Foundation's Space Commerce Institute, which connects entrepreneurs ...