The science and technology ministry is drafting a policy in which the private sector will participate in the building and ...

Space development is shifting from being state-led to being led by the private sector. Japanese companies should not miss out ...

which will separate from the mission's dual probes during the final approach. That will leave the ESA's Planetary Orbiter and JAXA’s Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter to study the world in detail.

A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole.The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 miles (295 kilometers) above Mercury's ...

Some of the images acquired of Mercury by the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft during its sixth Mercury flyby on January 8, 2025. The images were captured by the onboard monitoring cameras. Credit: ESA ...

BepiColombo, the current spacecraft studying Mercury, is a joint mission of the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Launched October 20, 2018, it’s actually two ...

On January 8, 2025, the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission completed its sixth flyby of Mercury, flying just 295 km above the planet’s surface. This marks the last gravity assist needed to steer the ...

Built by the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the timber-clad device was sent to International Space Station last November. Now, NASA says that the tiny satellite, dubbed LignoSat ...

The joint European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) mission made its latest passage of Mercury on Wednesday (Jan. 8) at 00: 59 EDT (0259 GMT). During the flyby ...

LignoSat was sent to the ISS in November 2024 on a mission to demonstrate that wood could be a viable ... encountered by Russia in "carving" its contribution to the ISS in 1998, JAXA's project is a ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the joint Mercury mission in 2018. The BepiColombo spacecraft was expected to fly less than 200 miles above ...