JAXA
Japan's national air and space agency
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| 2025 | JAXA plans to conduct lunar exploration missions in fiscal year 2025, focusing on advanced space exploration technologies and lunar surface research. |
| 2025 | JAXA plans to launch multiple satellites and spacecraft in Fiscal Year 2025, including ETS-IX (Engineering Test Satellite), HTV-X1 (H-II Transfer Vehicle), Innovative Satellite Technology Demonstration-4, QZS-6, and QZS-7 as part of their ongoing space exploration and technology demonstration missions. |
| March 2025 | JAXA plans to end H-IIA operations with Flight No. 50 and retire the rocket. |
| January 2025 | JAXA began collaborating with Japan Airlines and O-Well Corporation to test a riblet-shaped coating on a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner to reduce aerodynamic drag and improve fuel efficiency. |
| 2024 | Planned launch of QZS-5 (Quasi-Zenith Satellite System) by JAXA in fiscal year 2024. |
| 2024 | JAXA plans to launch the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission to explore Mars' moons Phobos and Deimos, aiming to collect samples and return them to Earth. |
| 2024 | JAXA planned multiple satellite launches in Fiscal Year 2024, including ALOS-4 (Advanced Land Observing Satellite), GOSAT-GW (Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite - Global Warming), QZS-5 (Quasi-Zenith Satellite System), and potentially Nano-JASMINE (though its launch is uncertain). |
| July 2024 | JAXA successfully launched ALOS-4, the successor to the ALOS-2 SAR satellite. |
| February 25 2024 | JAXA sent wake-up calls and confirmed SLIM had survived the lunar night while maintaining communication capabilities, a rare feat without a Radioisotope heater unit. |
| February 25 2024 | JAXA successfully sent wake-up calls to SLIM, confirming the lander survived the lunar night and maintained communication capabilities, a rare feat without a Radioisotope heater unit. |
| January 29 2024 | SLIM resumed operations after being shut down for a week, with JAXA re-establishing contact and solar cells working after a shift in lighting conditions. |
| January 29 2024 | After being shut down for a week, SLIM resumed operations when its solar cells began working again under shifted lighting conditions. |
| January 19 2024 | SLIM successfully performed a soft landing on the Moon at 15:20 UTC, making Japan the 5th country to achieve this, landing 55 meters from its target site. |
| 2023 | JAXA provides the Auroral Electron Sensor (AES) for the Taiwanese FORMOSAT-5 satellite mission. |
| 2023 | JAXA collaborated with ESA to provide the radar system for the EarthCARE satellite mission. |
| 2023 | JAXA launched SLIM (Smart Lander for Investigating Moon), its first lunar surface mission. |
| 2023 | JAXA began operating the H3 rocket, a new liquid-fueled launch vehicle designed to increase launch capability at a lower cost, utilizing an expander bleed cycle for the first stage engine. |
| March 2023 | The ALOS-3 satellite was lost during a launch failure when the H3 rocket's second stage failed to ignite. |
| 2021 | Misasa Deep Space Station (MDSS) was completed at a cost of over ten billion Yen, succeeding UDSC as the primary antenna for JAXA's Deep Space Network. |
| October 2021 | JAXA provided NASA with data received at Misasa during Juno's flyby of Jupiter's moon Europa. |
| 2020 | JAXA planned to develop SOLAR-C, a future solar observation mission expected to be launched after 2020, potentially using the more powerful H-2A rocket from Tanegashima and potentially positioned near Lagrange point 1. |
| 2020 | The SPICA infrared mission was cancelled after years of development and planning. |
| 2020 | JAXA proposed launching a Space Solar Power System (SSPS) prototype, with the goal of developing a full-power space-based solar power system by 2030. |
| 2020 | The SPICA infrared mission was cancelled after plans for a launch in 2027 or 2028 on JAXA's H3 Launch Vehicle. |
| 2020 | Hayabusa2 successfully returned samples from asteroid 162173 Ryugu to Earth. |
| May 2020 | JAXA concluded operations of the H-IIB rocket. |
| February 27 2019 | WINDS satellite was decommissioned after years of service. |
| October 2018 | Launched the successor satellite GOSAT 2, continuing JAXA's Earth observation and greenhouse gas monitoring program. |
| May 11 2018 | JAXA deployed the first satellite developed in Kenya (1KUNS-PF) from the Japanese Experiment Module of the International Space Station, created by the University of Nairobi. |
| February 2018 | JAXA announced a research collaboration with Sony to test a laser communication system from the Kibo module in late 2018. |
| February 2 2018 | JAXA successfully launched the SS-520-5, the world's smallest orbital launcher, putting a four-kilogram CubeSat into Earth orbit. |
| January 2017 | JAXA attempted but failed to put a miniature satellite into orbit using the SS520 series rocket. |
| 2015 | The joint X-Ray telescope mission XEUS with ESA was originally planned for launch after this year, but was ultimately cancelled and replaced by ATHENA. |
| October 2015 | NASA's Deep Space Network supported JAXA's Akatsuki Venus probe through its 34-meter antennas. |
| 2014 | JAXA launched Hayabusa2 mission to asteroid 162173 Ryugu. |
| May 2014 | JAXA launched the ALOS-2 SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite as part of its Earth observation program. |
| 2013 | JAXA successfully launched the maiden flight of the Epsilon, a new solid-fueled rocket developed as a replacement for the retired M-V rocket. |
| September 11 2010 | JAXA launched QZS-1 (Michibiki-1), the first satellite of the Quasi Zenith Satellite System (QZSS), a subsystem of the global positioning system. |
| July 2010 | IKAROS successfully demonstrated solar sail technology in interplanetary space, becoming the world's first spacecraft to do so. |
| June 13 2010 | Hayabusa returned to Earth, becoming the world's first spacecraft to return asteroid samples and complete a round trip to a celestial body beyond the Moon. |
| May 2010 | IKAROS solar sail was launched. |
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