A key driver of Japan’s space ambitions is the Basic Plan on Space Policy, which was revised in 2023 to reflect the evolving global space landscape. The updated plan emphasizes ...

Tokyo-based moon exploration company ispace is heartened by signs the United States and Japan will remain on course for joint lunar missions, its CEO said on Wednesday, amid growing uncertainties ...

Japan became the fifth country in history to ... The spacecraft was testing technology to allow moon missions to land “where we want to, rather than where it is easy to land,” JAXA has said.

The US space agency NASA plans to buy them, in what would be a breakthrough business transaction for resources from the moon. Right now, engineers at a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency facility ...

Engineers say the privately funded moon lander likely ... and "beneficial for following missions, to make them more reliable." Yamazaki is a former astronaut with the Japan Aerospace Exploration ...

TOKYO (Bloomberg): Japan will be the latest country to aim for the moon this weekend, just days after a Russian spacecraft collided with the lunar surface and India’s Chandrayaan-3 landed near ...

“No other nation has achieved this. Proving Japan has this technology would bring us a huge advantage in upcoming international missions like Artemis,” said Shinichiro Sakai, JAXA’s SLIM project ...

Manufacturing a lightweight moon lander with less fuel consumption was another objective of the SLIM project, as Japan aims to carry out more frequent missions in the future by reducing launch costs.

With another mission scheduled to launch next week, ispace wants to win its place in space history at a booming time for missions to the Moon from both ... to people across Japan that it's ...

The failure caused widespread delays in Japan’s space missions, including SLIM and a joint lunar exploration with India, which in August made a historic touchdown on the moon’s south pole with its ...