JAXA
Every Cosmic Herald story on JAXA — missions, launches, discoveries, and the business of space, newest first.
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NASA & Agencies
Typhoon-Delayed Michibiki-7 Set to Complete Japan's GPS Backup Constellation — and It's Carrying a U.S. Space-Surveillance Payload
After Typhoon Dolphin scrubbed one date and weather killed another, JAXA's H3 Flight 9 is now set to loft QZS-7 from Tanegashima on August 11 — completing Japan's seven-satellite GPS-augmentation system while hosting a second MIT Lincoln Laboratory surveillance payload for the U.S. Space Force.
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NASA & Agencies
ISRO and JAXA Lock Down the Handshake Between Chandrayaan-5's Lander and Its Japanese Rover
At a Bengaluru meeting in late July, Indian and Japanese engineers finalized how their lander and rover will talk to and power each other on the Chandrayaan-5/LUPEX mission to hunt for lunar water ice.
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NASA & Agencies
Japan and Singapore Sign Their First-Ever Space Pact — and Singapore's Three-Month-Old Space Agency Gets Its Debut Deal
JAXA and Singapore's brand-new National Space Agency signed a memorandum in Tokyo covering quantum satellite links and industrial cooperation — NSAS's first international agreement, three months after it was founded.
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NASA & Agencies
JAXA is going to the moons of Mars. MMX wants to answer a 150-year-old question.
Japan's Martian Moons eXploration mission is designed to land on Phobos, collect a sample, and bring it back to Earth. The mission is also a test case for a new kind of planetary science — studying small, dark bodies that may preserve material from the early solar system.
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NASA & Agencies
Who actually runs space? A field guide to the agencies
Spaceflight is now a multipolar, increasingly commercial enterprise, structured as much by alliances as by rockets. A guide to the major agencies — their specialities, their constraints, and the strategic fault lines forming between them.
