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Loading contentJAXA is Japan's national space agency, responsible for the country's aerospace research, satellite operations, and human spaceflight contributions including the Kibo module on the International Space Station.
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How JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) connects across Asteria Star — scientific, cultural, and astrological links are kept separate.
The International Space Station is a crewed modular space station in low Earth orbit, operated as a partnership among NASA, Roscosmos, ESA, JAXA, and the CSA.
JAXA's asteroid sample-return program; Hayabusa and Hayabusa2 returned samples from asteroids Itokawa and Ryugu.
A Japanese launch vehicle that flew JAXA science missions including Hayabusa2 and the Akatsuki Venus orbiter.
JAXA's largest launch complex, used for the H-IIA, H-IIB, and H3 rockets.
BepiColombo is a joint ESA–JAXA mission of two orbiters travelling to Mercury, arriving in the mid-2020s.
Hayabusa was the first mission to return a sample from an asteroid, the near-Earth asteroid Itokawa.
Hayabusa2 collected surface and subsurface samples of the asteroid Ryugu and returned them to Earth.
The Lunar Gateway is a planned small space station in orbit around the Moon, to be built by NASA and international partners as part of the Artemis program. It is not yet operational.
Kibo, meaning 'hope', is JAXA's laboratory complex on the ISS — the station's largest module, with an external platform for experiments exposed to space.
The H-II Transfer Vehicle (Kounotori) was JAXA's uncrewed cargo craft that resupplied the ISS from 2009 to 2020.
Hinode is a Japanese-led solar observatory studying the Sun's magnetic field and corona in visible, ultraviolet, and X-ray light.
Japan's family of liquid-hydrogen launch vehicles — the H-I, H-II, H-IIA/H-IIB, and the current H3 — developed by JAXA and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
Japan's first entirely domestically developed launch vehicle, using cryogenic LH2/LOX stages.
JAXA's new-generation launch vehicle with the expander-bleed LE-9 engine, designed for lower cost and higher flexibility than the H-IIA.
A Japanese solid-fueled small-lift rocket derived from the H-IIA's booster technology, launched from the Uchinoura Space Center for small scientific satellites.
Japan's greenhouse-gases observing satellite — the first satellite dedicated to monitoring atmospheric carbon dioxide and methane from space — operated by JAXA with Japan's National Institute for Environmental Studies.
JAXA's planned mission to the moons of Mars — it will study Phobos and Deimos and return a sample of Phobos to Earth, testing whether the Martian moons are captured asteroids or debris from a giant impact.
A JAXA technology-demonstration and flyby mission that will test advanced ion propulsion en route to a flyby of 3200 Phaethon — the rock-comet source of the Geminid meteor shower — studying its dust.
Japan's deep-space tracking network, run by JAXA/ISAS, centred on the Usuda Deep Space Center in Nagano (a 64 m antenna) and the newer 54 m Misasa antenna. It supported the Hayabusa asteroid missions and Japan's other deep-space probes.
JAXA's 64 m deep-space antenna in Nagano, which supported the Hayabusa asteroid missions and Japan's other deep-space probes.
JAXA operates its science and deep-space missions from centres including the Sagamihara campus (ISAS) and the Tsukuba Space Center, working with the Usuda deep-space antenna.
JAXA's central hub, in Tsukuba Science City, Japan. Tsukuba develops and tests satellites and rockets, trains Japanese astronauts, and operates the Kibo module on the International Space Station.
A national or multinational government body that funds, directs, and carries out a country's space program — from human spaceflight and robotic exploration to Earth observation and launch. NASA, ESA, JAXA, ISRO, Roscosmos, and CNSA are the largest.
The American Association of Variable Star Observers — for more than a century, the organisation that gathers variable-star observations from amateurs worldwide into a single database that professional astronomers draw on. The model for how amateur and professional astronomy work together.
The Agência Espacial Brasileira is the civilian agency responsible for Brazil's space programme.
The Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers, which coordinates amateur observation of the Moon, the planets, comets, and asteroids — organising observing programmes and archiving the results so that amateur monitoring of the Solar System adds up to something lasting.
Arianespace is a European launch service provider that markets and operates launches of the Ariane family of rockets from the Guiana Space Centre.
The Agenzia Spaziale Italiana is Italy's national space agency, a significant contributor to ESA and to international planetary science missions.
A commercial operator of a low-Earth-orbit constellation for rapid-revisit Earth imaging.
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