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• NASA Global Precipitation Measurement Mission Passes Major Review

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 609
  NASA’s effort to deploy the first satellite mission to advance global precipitation observations from space moved closer to this goal when agency officials approved critical elements for the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission on Dec. 2.NASA gave GPM the green light to proceed to the mission ...
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• Sudsy Spin-Off

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 483
  Japanese beer maker Sapporo Breweries Ltd . on Thursday announced it would market a new beer made from barley grown in space. Sapporo is launching the first-ever beer that uses malt entirely made from barley grown in space aboard the International Space Station. The beer has been dubbed Sapporo “Space Barley.” ...
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• Zero gravity materials science and biology experiments

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 609
  The launch of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) TEXUS 47 rocket on 29 November 2009 at 10:00 from Esrange in Kiruna, northern Sweden, and the successful recovery of its payload was the auspicious conclusion of this years TEXUS (technological experiments under weightless conditions) research programme.In the course of ...
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• Suzaku Spies Treasure Trove of Intergalactic Metal

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 609
  Every cook knows the ingredients for making bread: flour, water, yeast, and time. But what chemical elements are in the recipe of our universe?Most of the ingredients are hydrogen and helium. These cosmic lightweights fill the first two spots on the famous periodic table of the elements.Less abundant but more familiar ...
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• Satellite Images of Human Re-engineering Planet Earth

  
  Astrocast.TV — Authority: 132
  [See post to watch Flash video] Satellite images are also pieces of art and we can all enjoy both the aesthetics and at the same time use it for the benefit of our society through services provided by the space agencies: JAXA(Japan): http://www.eorc.jaxa.jp/en/index.html ESA (Europe): ...
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• International Space Station and JAXA

  
  Japan Visitor Blog - Tokyo Osaka Nagoya Kyoto — Authority: 131
  スペース　ステーション The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is one of the agencies of the 11 from around the world involved in the International Space Station (ISS) project. Once complete, the still partially built space station will be about the size of a soccer field. However, it is already ...
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• Japan orbits satellite to spy on North Korea

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 609
  TOKYO, (RIA Novosti) – Japan successfully orbited on Saturday an information gathering satellite, the Kyodo news agency said. A Japanese H-2A rocket carrying the satellite lifted off from Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture at 10:21 a.m. local time [01:21 GMT], Kyodo said.Japan’s national space agency ...
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• Japan launches satellite

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Tokyo, Nov 28 (IANS) Japan launched an intelligence satellite Saturday from Tanegashima Space Centre in the Japanese prefecture of Kagoshima, a report said.The JAXA, Japan’s national space agency, launched the satellite at 10.21 a.m. local time. The satellite will reportedly be used to improve the monitoring ...
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• The Moons lowest of the low

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 483
  A recently-released Kaguya Terrain Camera image released November 6 appears to be the very deep, as yet unnamed crater (70.7 S, 186.6 E) holding the Moons lowest point of elevation (-9060 meters below mean). Apparently warped after formation, perhaps by an intrusion of inundating mare material from below, the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hayabusa Asteroid Probe’s Rescue Plan

  
  BionicBong — Authority: 133
  Japanese engineers have devised a plan to combine parts from two partially-failed ion engines to resume the Hayabusa asteroid probe’s journey back to Earth. An ion engine in ground testing. JAXA In a press release Thursday, officials said they will use the neutralizer of Thruster A and the ion source of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Restoration of Asteroid Explorer, HAYABUSA’s Return Cruise

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 609
  The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has been studying measures to deal with the anomaly detected in one of the ion engines aboard the Asteroid Explorer “HAYABUSA” as reported on November 9, 2009.As a result, the project team has come up with a recovery operation plan, and the project decided to resume ...
  2 weeks ago

• JAXA Chooses Akihiko Hoshide for ISS Mission

  
  Parabolic Arc — Authority: 530
  JAXA PRESS RELEASE The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) would like to announce that Astronaut Akihiko Hoshide has been selected as a crew member for the 32nd/33rd Expedition Mission at the International Space Station (ISS). Once there, he will engage in space activities mainly for space environment ...
  3 weeks ago

• JAXA Faces Severe Budget Cuts

  
  Parabolic Arc — Authority: 530
  Japan aerospace budget to be cut, research canceled in national fiscal reductions Examiner A Japanese governmental advisory committee looking to cut billions of dollars worth of wasteful spending from the country’s 2010 fiscal year budget has recommended that specific funds to Japan’s aerospace program (JAXA) ...
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• Station Crew Prepares for Arrival of Atlantis

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 609
  After the launch of space shuttle on Atlantis on Monday, Expedition 21 Commander Frank De Winne and Flight Engineers Robert Thirsk, Roman Romanenko, Nicole Stott, Maxim Suraev and Jeffrey Williams were busy making final preparations for its arrival, set for Wednesday.Williams and Stott reviewed photography procedures ...
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• Heart of Reiner Gamma

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 483
  The most familiar lunar "Swirl" phenomena, now associated with a crustal magnetic field, tightly centered near lower right hand part of this Kaguya Terrain Camera image , and field lines measured by Lunar Prospector at 9 nT centered in the distinctive middle of the 30 km wide "eye" of the feature. Two similarly ...
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• 2030: The Year Solar Energy Will Be Beamed Down From Space With Lasers!

  
  Environmental Graffiti — Authority: 651
  Since the 1960s, space enthusiasts and international space agencies have had one dream: to collect solar power and use it on earth. What seemed utopic more than 40 years ago is about to become reality: the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency JAXA especially is hell-bent on harvesting solar energy... This is just a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Japan to operate solar energy station in outer space

  
  CrunchGear — Authority: 783
  The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has big plans: It wants to conquer outer space to generate solar energy by 2030. The idea is to collect solar power in space and beam it down to earth, in the form of lasers or microwaves. The so-called Space Solar Power System project is led by big corporations such ...
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• Japan Plans Solar Sail Launch Next Year

  
  Parabolic Arc — Authority: 530
  The Planetary Societys LightSail-1 solar sail. Credit: Rick Sternbach/The Planetary Society Two solar sailing trials readied for launch next year Spaceflight Now Japan is planning to launch an interplanetary solar sail mission called Ikaros next May. The Planetary Society will follow with its own demo flight ...
  4 weeks ago

• Hard-Luck Hayabusa In More Trouble

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 609
  A problem-plagued Japanese mission to an asteroid just may have received its final blow. The Haybusa mission to asteroid Itokawa in 2005 is currently trying to return to Earth, but now has suffered a breakdown in the third out of four ion thrusters. The cause was a voltage spike due to problems with a neutralization ...
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• Hard-Luck Hayabusa In More Trouble

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 648
  Artist concept of the Hayabusa spacecraft. Credit: JAXA A problem-plagued Japanese mission to an asteroid just may have received its final blow. The Haybusa mission to asteroid Itokawa in 2005 is currently trying to return to Earth , but now has suffered a breakdown in the third out of four ion thrusters. The ...
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