The Japanese Space Agency JAXA have launched the Venus Climate Orbiter “AKATSUKI” and the Small Solar Power Sail Demonstrator “IKAROS” – along with several university-developed secondary payloads – via their H-IIA Launch Vehicle. Launch from the Tanegashima Space Center (TNSC) on Thursday was originally scrubbed due to unacceptable weather earlier in the week.
On June 10, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced that they had selected their next…
Three flagship European Space Agency (ESA) projects have or will reach critical milestones this month,…
Now past the halfway mark in its mission at the giant of our solar system,…
Overall, NASA’s Juno spacecraft in orbit of Jupiter is in good health and good condition…
Japan launched the second satellite of its Global Change Observation Mission Saturday. The GCOM-C satellite…
Moving out into the asteroid belt and farther still to the gas giants, NASA’s Dawn,…
Throughout the inner solar system in 2016, NASA, ESA, JAXA, Roscosmos, and ISRO built upon…
Year 2015 was yet another banner stretch for planetary exploration. The year saw the farewell…
Japan has successfully launched the second sample return mission to an asteroid, with a JAXA…
The Japanese have launched the centrepiece of the Global Precipitation Measurement constellation, an international partnership…
