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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 space agency (JAXA) is gearing up for itsMartian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission,with plans to have a sample fromMars’ 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 possibly e...
Japan recommends one Moon mission be scrappedNature - the world's best science and medicine on your desktopdoi:10.1038/news070115-6Nicola JonesNature
mission 1 lander, made by japanese startup ispace, crashed in april as it attempted to descend to the lunar surface. slim is set to touch down on the near side of the moon close to mare nectaris, a lunar sea that, viewed from earth, appears as a dark spot. its primary g...
Japan has announced that it is getting ready to launch its first unmanned mission to the Moon in 2018, which would make it the fourth nation to land on Earth’s satellite and help pave the way for manned missions in the future.
While Kaguya is not Japan's first unmanned lunar mission, it is the country's most ambitious. In 1990, Japan launched the Hiten spacecraft to make a series of lunar flybys, deploy a small Hagamordo satellite near the moon and enter lunar orbit. Hiten was intentionally crashed into the mo...
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...
“Particularly convenient for the Martian Moons eXploration mission, which will target Phobos for sample return, is that the moon’s close orbit to Mars means that excavated Martian material can reach Phobos without a strong shocked excavation event, which would melt the material,” Hyodo explains...