This is the second installment on the JAXA Kaguya Lunar Orbiter mission and I offer a detailed summary of its important mission accomplishments. Have a look back at my July 5th posting on both the JAXA Kaguya and Hayabusa missions for the background on this. A critical fact carried over from the NASA Apollo missions of 1967 [...]
Last month, you must have heard news about the Hayabusa space probe which was sent by the Japan Space Agency (JAXA) to drill into the near-Earth asteroid Itokawa and bring back samples. This successful and important mission will tell us a lot about how the Solar System was formed and the likelihood that we may someday find [...]
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