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PARIS -- The European Space Agency is targeting Tokyo for its first office in Asia, aiming to boost cooperation with Japan on asteroid observation and other activities. [1]

JAXA is developing a supersonic passenger plane whose nose and tail create more powerful shock waves that travel fast enough to stay ahead of the shock waves from the wings and elsewhere, canceling them out. (confirmed by 2 sources) [2]

TOKYO -- After a five-year delay, Japan's Akatsuki space probe is set to begin full-scale observations of Venus next month. [3]

TOKYO -- Japan's space agency, known as JAXA, is also the country's top institution dedicated to aircraft research. [4]

TOKYO -- Honda Motor will join the development of a lunar rover by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Nikkei has learned. [5]

Aerospace & Defense IndustriesJAXA and ESA chiefs talk up collaborations on moon, planetary defense Space agencies lay out the 'next big cooperations' between Japan and Europe The Earth observation satellite, EarthCARE, developed by JAXA and ESA to m... [6]

TOKYO -- Japan's cabinet on Monday approved a bill to set up a 1 trillion yen ($6.7 billion) fund for JAXA, the country's space agency, as a way to catapult the country's private sector into the global race for new rocket and satellite technologies. [7]

TOKYO -- Space startup Astroscale will launch joint studies with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, with the aim of quickly developing technologies for removing space debris. [8]

Sources
[1] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2025-10-04 · 75% match

Europe space agency eyes Tokyo office, deeper collaboration with JAXA

PARIS -- The European Space Agency is targeting Tokyo for its first office in Asia, aiming to boost cooperation with Japan on asteroid observation and other activities.

[2] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2015-12-24 · 85% match

JAXA project aims for quieter supersonic passenger jets

JAXA is developing a supersonic passenger plane whose nose and tail create more powerful shock waves that travel fast enough to stay ahead of the shock waves from the wings and elsewhere, canceling them out.

[3] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2016-03-14 · 85% match

Venus finally in sight for JAXA's once-wayward Akatsuki probe

TOKYO -- After a five-year delay, Japan's Akatsuki space probe is set to begin full-scale observations of Venus next month.

[4] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2017-08-13 · 81% match

JAXA, Boeing to test 'invisible' turbulence detector

TOKYO -- Japan's space agency, known as JAXA, is also the country's top institution dedicated to aircraft research.

[5] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2022-09-16 · 75% match

Honda to join lunar rover project by JAXA

TOKYO -- Honda Motor will join the development of a lunar rover by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Nikkei has learned.

[6] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2024-11-21 · 75% match

JAXA and ESA chiefs talk up collaborations on moon, planetary defense

Aerospace & Defense IndustriesJAXA and ESA chiefs talk up collaborations on moon, planetary defense Space agencies lay out the 'next big cooperations' between Japan and Europe The Earth observation satellite, EarthCARE, developed by JAXA and ESA to m

[7] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2023-11-20 · 75% match

Japan to set up $6.7bn JAXA fund to develop space industry

TOKYO -- Japan's cabinet on Monday approved a bill to set up a 1 trillion yen ($6.7 billion) fund for JAXA, the country's space agency, as a way to catapult the country's private sector into the global race for new rocket and satellite technologies.

[8] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2017-09-12 · 75% match

Startup Astroscale partners with JAXA to tidy up outer space

TOKYO -- Space startup Astroscale will launch joint studies with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, with the aim of quickly developing technologies for removing space debris.

[9] MM www.channelnewsasia.com · 2022-10-05 · 75% match

Former JAXA astronaut confident that Japan will put boots on the moon by this decade

Former JAXA astronaut confident that Japan will put boots on the moon by this decade 05:52 Min Former JAXA Astronaut and Representative Director of Space Port Japan Association, Naoko Yamazaki, talks about global cooperation in space exploration and

[10] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2022-10-05 · 75% match

JAXA recruits companies to develop space toothpaste, body wipes

TOKYO -- Japanese space agency JAXA will collaborate with nine domestic companies to develop daily necessities such as dental products for use by astronauts and cosmic tourists.

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