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Japan’s Quasi-Zenith Satellite System – QZSS

We live in a digital world. More and more this digital world is going mobile. Global Positioning Satellites (GPS) operated by

From the Jamaipanese.com Archives – October 2013

Back again with another pick of three posts from the Jamaipanese.com archives. From a beautiful Jamaica-themed video project 

JAXA’s Akatsuki Probe reaches Venus

It’s been six months since the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the Akatsuki probe the Tanegashima spa

Japan’s Akatsuki Probe on its way to Venus

A few days ago the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launched the Akatsuki probe from the Tanegashima spaceport in Kagoshima

JAXA’s Venus Climate Orbiter Mission

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has been very active lately and will be well into the new year. Just before their plan

Japan to Launch a Dozen Fish into Orbit

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency along with about 2 dozen other research organizations and universities has plans for a

Japan to Launch Cargo Ship into Space

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is getting ready to launch it’s first unmanned spacecraft. The HTV-1 cargo ship i

Lunar Orbiter Kaguya’s Mission ends

Japan’s Kaguya probe was launched in late 2007. It’s official name was Selenological and Engineering Explorer (SEL

Japan launches Kizuna

Japan has been launching satellite after satellite over the past few years. I have been on top of a few of those launches whic

Japan’s Kaguya now in Orbit

Japans aim of sending a man to the moon by 2020 is well underway. The recently launched Kaguya probe, which is named after a f

Kaguya sends back Earth in High Definition

Less than a month after launch from the small island of Tanegashima off the southern tip of Kyushu Island, southern Japan, the

JAXA being Privatized?

It seems that the Japanese government is planning to privatize the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) so that it will q