Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

News Hour: Japan on Thursday launched a satellite to help build a high-precision geolocation system that will complement the US-operated GPS. A H-IIA rocket blasted off at 9:17am (0017 GMT) from the Tanegashima space center in...

News Hour: An experimental Japanese mission to clear ‘space junk’ or rubbish from the Earth’s orbit has ended in failure, officials said Monday, in an embarrassment for Tokyo. Over 100 million pieces of garbage are thought...