by David Todd | Jul 8, 2020 | commercial launch services, JAXA, Launches
JAXA, Japan’s equivalent of NASA, which is more formally known as the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. has signed a deal with the Japanese firm IHI Aerospace to develop, build and operate the Epsilon-S solid fuel rocket. The idea is that IHI Aerospace will... 
by Matt Wilson | May 21, 2020 | International Space Station, JAXA, Launches, NASA, Satellites, Seradata News
On 20 May 2020, at 1731 GMT, the last planned launch of the MHI-built, H-2B variant took place. The mission lifted-off from the Tanegashima Space Center, Japan, carrying the HTV-9 cargo freighter into LEO. The HTV (H-II Transfer Vehicle) is part of Japan’s... 
by Matt Wilson | Feb 26, 2020 | exploration, JAXA, Satellites, Seradata News
On 19 February 2020, JAXA, alongside the Japanese government approved the development of the MMX mission. MMX – Martian Moon eXploration – is a sample return mission targeting the Martian moon, Phobos. The mission has a planned launch date of September... 
by Matt Wilson | Feb 17, 2020 | commercial launch services, JAXA, Launches, NASA, Satellites, Seradata News, Technology
Rocket Lab Rocket Lab has received a launch contract from NASA to carry the CAPSTONE, 12U CubeSat, to the Moon. The CAPSTONE satellite being built by Tyvak and Advanced Space, will be placed into a “near-rectilinear halo orbit” around the Moon. This is the... 
by Matt Wilson | Sep 25, 2019 | International Space Station, JAXA, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News
Lifting-off from the Tanegashima Space Center, Southern Japan, at 1605 GMT, 24 September, a Japanese H-2B rocket has carried an HTV resupply freighter into LEO. This is the eighth HTV mission in service of the ISS conducted by JAXA. This mission carried 4,100 kg of...
