Japan's past attempts have also gone wrong, including last year when it sent a lunar probe named Omotenashi as part of the United States'Artemis 1 mission. The size of a backpack, Omotenashi would have been the world's smallest Moon lander, but it was lost. And in April, Japanese start...
Japan is moving ahead with plans to land a spacecraft on Phobos, one of Mars’ moons. If successful, the mission would mark the first time any country has touched down on the surface of the Martian moon and potentially the first round-trip mission to the Mars system. Japan’s space agen...
Japan has postponed the launch of a mission seeking to bring samples of a Martian moon to Earth until 2026, due to problems with the nation's new H3 rocket.
Japan’s SLIM lander has sparked a new era of precision landings, with big implications for lunar science and exploration
Japan’s space agency (JAXA) is gearing up for its Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission, with plans to have a sample from Mars’ moon Phobos return to Earth by 2029. Mission scientists say they hope to find clues to the origins of Mars two moons, as well as Mars itself, and possib...
Japan recommends one Moon mission be scrappedNature - the world's best science and medicine on your desktopdoi:10.1038/news070115-6Nicola JonesNature
Japan launched a rocket Wednesday night, carrying a moon probe that it hopes to land on the lunar surface and would make Japan the fifth country to reach the moon.
four nations that have soft-landed a spacecraft on the moon are the Soviet Union and the United States, both of which first did so during the Cold Warspace race; China, which first hit the gray dirt in 2013; and India, which joined the club in August 2023 with itsChandrayaan-3mission...
The XRISM means X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission and is a collective objective of JAXA and NASA. trending nowThe primary goal of Japan’s moon objective is to show precise lunar landing strategies, which will assist make difficult landing locations more available. Jap...
In any event, Japan is now the fifth country to successfully land on the moon, after the United States, the Soviet Union, China and, most recently, India. With its participation in the International Space Station, the Kaguya lunar orbiter and the Hayabusa asteroid missio...