Tag Archives : Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

One of the most technology intensive countries in the world, Japan, has now finally succeeded in conducting a successful launch of the country’s first GPS satellite, in an effort to boost its satellite navigation capabilities. The Michibiki satellite was launched from the Tanegashima Space Center at 8:17 pm local time on Saturday and was delivered [...]

Humans have come a long way from sending unmanned spacecrafts into the orbit, to planning manned Mars missions by the end of this decade. Yet, there is a concept that though proven quite feasible in theory was yet to have been attempted successfully. We are talking about the solar propulsion in space travel, with the help of solar sails. The Japan Aerospace [...]

Japan has successfully tested the state of the art unmanned H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV), that has been developed to supply essential items to the International Space Station (ISS). The test was completed when the autonomous vehicle re-entered earth’s atmosphere heating the vehicle surface at 2000 degrees centigrade. The H-II Transfer Vehicle is [...]

All these years astronauts have been using the weird Russian made toilets, which usually went embarrassingly wrong while up in the space. In fact, the toilet needed prior training given to the astros. Now, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has unveiled a wearable toilet, which can be worn by the astronaut like a diaper. The excrements would be [...]