Takuya Onishi and three fellow crew members embarked Friday on a mission to the International Space Station aboard ...

The SLIM probe was launched in September from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture. Its successful lunar touchdown made Japan the fifth country to land an unmanned spacecraft on ...

NASA will wait at least another two days to launch its next space station crew, delaying the return of Starliner astronauts ...

Japan’s H-2A rocket is set for its second-to-last mission on Thursday, Sept. 26, launching a secret spy satellite named IGS-Radar 8 from Tanegashima Space Center at 1:24 a.m. EDT (0524 GMT ...

The Crew-10 mission is soaring toward the ISS, with a team of astronauts from NASA, JAXA, and Roscosmos. Their spacecraft ...

Japan's flagship H3 rocket put a key component ... The launch from Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture marked the H3's fourth consecutive successful launch. The rocket carried ...

Japan has taken a major step toward bolstering its space capabilities with the successful launch of a navigation satellite aboard its new H3 rocket on February 3, 2025. The launch marks a ...

contract by Japan’s Ministry of Defense to develop a responsive space system demonstration satellite prototype. The project will leverage Astroscale Japan’s heritage in rendezvous and proximity ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 surged up through blue skies to send a crew on its way to International Space Station where the pair of ...

JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov — will now return to crew quarters at the Kennedy Space Center and await confirmation of ...