Credit: Facebook/ ispace 2023 is going to be Japan ... Basic Space Policy), regulation (2021 Space Resources Act) as well as technology (its 2019 asteroid sample return and 2023 private lunar ...

TOKYO -- The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will soon be able to invest freely in private businesses under ... actively buys up products and technology developed by the startups ...

TOKYO -- A new global race is heating up to develop technology for transmitting solar power collected in space to Earth, with a Japanese public-private partnership aiming to run a trial around ...

Japan's SLIM moon ... and strategic support for private companies and universities to engage in advanced technology development and commercialization efforts in the space sector.

Japan's private Resilience lunar lander has given ... (SLIM was operated by JAXA, Japan's national space agency.) ispace came close to notching that milestone: Its first moon lander reached ...

The failed lunar mission follows ispace’s first attempt in 2023, which also ended with a bang. That craft, the Hakuto-R lunar ...

Japan-led collection mission in space are currently on display at the Camp Zama Library here. The replicas were based on samples from the asteroid “Ryugu,” from which the spacecraft Asteroid ...