A Japanese-led venture called Space Walker aims to build Japan's first private spaceplane, the Eco Rocket. The company was present at this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2025, where a ...

The current plan calls for Resilience to land that day at 3:24 p.m. EST (2024 GMT) near the center of Mare Frigoris ("Sea of ...

Japan’s burgeoning private space sector has suffered another ... with the development of its small-scale Epsilon rocket facing significant delays. Despite a global surging demand for launch ...

The company suspended the small rocket's flight some 10 minutes after launch from Space Port Kii in Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, and purposefully detonated the craft. No private Japanese ...

Japanese startup ispace on Tuesday set a June 6 target touchdown date for its moon lander, following the success of its ...

Meanwhile, the Resilience lander from Japanese private space exploration firm ispace launched Jan. 15 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The lander is currently in Earth orbit and will gradually raise ...

Japanese startup Dymon Co.'s ultra-compact Moon rover was launched Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a ...

There's a scene in the film Interstellar where Matthew McConaughey's character flies his spaceplane up to meet a mothership ...

If all goes according to plan, the Athena lander will touch down near the moon's south pole on or around March 6.

TOKYO (AP) — Japan on Sunday launched a navigation satellite on its new flagship H3 rocket as the country seeks to have a more precise location positioning system of its own.

Rocket Lab inks multi-launch deal with iQPS for four missions, advancing Japan's Earth imaging satellite constellation. CEO Peter Beck highlights Rocket Lab’s precision in satellite deployment ...