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August 26, 2026
A girl born in Japan in 1947 had a two percent chance of reaching her ninetieth birthday. A girl born there today gets a coin flip. Both numbers sit in the same government spreadsheet. Japan’s…
August 24, 2026
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August 23, 2026
Japan's space agency JAXA has announced that the MMX mission (Martian Moon Explorer) is set to launch on 20 October 2026 at 04:41 (local time) – that is 19 October 2026 at 21:41…
August 22, 2026
These Japanese crows have turned traffic lights into a reliable tool—and researchers spent two decades watching them perfect the strategy. The post Researchers in Japan documented carrion crows…
And more: a Japanese mission to the moons of Mars, solar storms and the mystery of dark energy…
"We're also on track to beat last year's launch count." Experience that opens doors to Neutron. Beck also noted that the extensive experience with Electron, which has already accumulated…
Japanese space startup Letara is betting its hybrid rocket technology can move beyond small satellite thrusters into a broader market for space, defense and security, after raising ¥2.6 billion ($16…
August 21, 2026
Japan recently gave the world a look at the spacecraft of its MMX mission, which will launch on Oct. 19 to grab pieces of the Mars moon Phobos and haul them back to Earth.
Japanese propulsion startup Letara closed a ¥2.6B ($16M) pre-Series A round to fund the development of its low-cost, hybrid engine tech. The post Letara Raises ¥2.6B to Build its Hybrid Rocket…
JAXA has set 20 October for the launch of MMX, the world's first mission designed to return a sample from the Mars region, also demonstrating round-trip Earth–Mars travel technologies."
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The MMX probe will launch on October 20 and attempt to land on Phobos; the mission will also study Deimos and plans to return material to Earth in 2031…
August 20, 2026
Japan's ambitious mission to collect and bring back samples from one of Mars' moons will lift off Oct. 20, the space agency announced Thursday.
Rocket Lab completed its ninth launch for Japanese synthetic aperture radar (SAR) company Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, Inc. (iQPS) on Aug. 21 from New Zealand. iQPS based in […] The post…
JAXA's MMX mission will land on Phobos, collect samples and return to Earth around 2031. The post Japanese mission to search…
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Rocket Lab will launch its ninth mission for the Japanese Earth-imaging company iQPS this morning (Aug. 20), and you can watch the action live.
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August 19, 2026
The animals live in the groundwater of the Ryukyu Islands and show traits adapted to darkness, such as lack of pigmentation and eyes The post Blind "cousins" of shrimp…
For most of the twentieth century, the purple sweet potato supplied roughly 60 percent of daily calories in Okinawan villages that produced the world's densest cluster of centenarians. What the data…
August 18, 2026
MMX will use a rover, two sampling systems and a brief Phobos landing to return more than 10 grams of material to Australia in 2031. The post Japan is sending a spacecraft to land on Phobos, where…
August 17, 2026
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A novel program to integrate U.S. and Japanese space capabilities was “completed” last week when a Japanese navigation satellite carrying a U.S. Space Force payload launched into orbit. The post US…
In a bilateral space effort, the U.S. Space Force successfully launched a Space Domain Awareness payload aboard Japan’s Quasi-Zenith Satellite 7.
A U.S. Space Domain Awareness payload hosted on Japan's Quasi-Zenith Satellite 7 successfully launched aboard Japan's H3 launch vehicle on August 10, 2026. The mission marked the H3 vehicle's second…
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August 16, 2026
Japanese scientists are readying a mission to Mars' moons to retrieve samples that may unlock the origins of the solar system and life on Earth, although a rival Chinese mission aims to make it back…
On August 10, 2026, a Japanese H-3 launch vehicle lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center carrying Japan’s Quasi-Zenith Satellite 7 (QZS-7) spacecraft, which hosts an optical Space Domain…
A 4.5-millimetre jellyfish off the coast of Japan responds to injury or starvation by collapsing into a blob and regrowing as a juvenile polyp — with no known upper limit on how many times it can…
August 15, 2026
A nation's demographic collapse is no longer abstract—it's visible on supermarket shelves. The post Japan now sells more adult nappies than baby nappies, a genuine and jarring marker of a country…
August 14, 2026
The Aug. 10 launch of QZS-7 completes bilateral program to host U.S. sensors aboard Japanese navigation satellites The post U.S. Space Force adds second surveillance sensor to Japanese constellation…
August 12, 2026
On August 12, 2026, space infrastructure provider Redwire Corporation announced a strategic teaming agreement with Japanese trading and commercial development firm Kanematsu Corporation. Under the…
Tokyo, Japan (August 12, 2026)- Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW), a global leader in aerospace and defense technology solutions, announced that it has signed a teaming agreement with Kanematsu…