Currently, the only spacecraft to use a solar sail as the main method of production is IKAROS which was launched by JAXA on May 21, 2010.

In July 2008, the International X-ray Observatory, a joint project between ESA, NASA and JAXA, was proposed as the next major X-ray observatory but was later cancelled.

Yamazaki was selected an astronaut candidate in February 1999 by the National Space Development Agency of Japan ( NASDA, now JAXA ), attended the ISS Astronaut Basic Training program beginning in April 1999, and was certified as an astronaut in September 2001.

HOPE was a Japanese experimental spaceplane project designed by a partnership between NASDA and NAL ( both now part of JAXA ), started in the 1980s.

Wakata was selected by the National Space Development Agency of Japan ( NASDA ) ( now JAXA ) as an astronaut candidate in 1992, and trained at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

He launched with the crew of STS-119 and was the first resident station crew member from the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency ( JAXA ).

The Infrared Space Observatory ( ISO ) was a space telescope for infrared light designed and operated by the European Space Agency ( ESA ), in cooperation with ISAS ( part of JAXA as of 2003 ) and NASA.

Mukai was selected to be an astronaut by Japanese national space agency NASDA ( now called JAXA ) in 1985.

On October 1, 2003, NASDA merged with ISAS ( Institute of Space and Astronautical Science ) and NAL ( National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan ) and was renamed Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ( JAXA ).

Work on the Japanese Experiment Module at ISS, and also HOPE-X, was started under NASDA and inherited by JAXA.

Suisei ( すいせい ; Japanese for Comet ), originally known as Planet-A, was an unmanned space probe developed by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science ( now part of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA ).

He is professor emeritus at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science ( ISAS ) ( part of JAXA ) in Kanagawa, Japan, and was guest scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany.

HOPE was a Japanese experimental spaceplane project designed by a partnership between NASDA and NAL ( both now part of JAXA ), started in the 1980s.

Produced by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science ( ISAS ) and the National Space Development Agency ( NASDA ), both now part of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ( JAXA ), the spacecraft was launched on September 14, 2007.

It was built by JAXA, but owned by NASA, who obtained ownership of the CAM by trading in a free launch of the Japanese Experiment Module Kibo to the Station.

Before the establishment of the JAXA space agency in 2003, it was simply called the.

It was launched on February 11, 1970 at 04: 25 UTC with a Lambda 4S-5 rocket from Uchinoura Space Center by Institute of Space and Aeronautical Science, University of Tokyo, now part of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ( JAXA ).

The Constellation-X Observatory ( HTXS or Con-X ) was a mission concept for an X-ray space observatory to be operated by NASA ; in 2008 it was merged with ESA and JAXA efforts in the same direction to produce the International X-ray Observatory project, announced on July 24, 2008.

Noguchi was selected as an astronaut candidate by the National Space Development Agency of Japan ( now part of JAXA ) in June 1996.

The paper said that the 15 billion yen that JAXA requested for the GX project was eventually slashed to 5. 6 billion yen in the Fiscal 2008 budget.

* 2010 – JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, launches the solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS aboard an H-IIA rocket.

For example, several countries have a civilian space program funded by the government through tax collection, such as NASA in the United States, ESA in Europe, the Canadian Space Agency in Canada, Indian Space Research Organisation in India, JAXA in Japan, RKA in Russia, China National Space Administration in China, SUPARCO in Pakistan, Iranian Space Agency in Iran, and Korea Aerospace Research Institute ( KARI ) in South Korea.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ( JAXA ) has several facilities within the prefecture, including the country's main launch facility on Tanegashima and the Uchinoura Space Center.

The Japanese Experiment Module ( JEM ), also known with the nickname, is a Japanese science module for the International Space Station ( ISS ) developed by JAXA.

* Noshiro space event-A JAXA vast multi-purpose test and the length of pine forest surrounded by 3 km, width of the flat 500m in areas where the Council of Noshiro event space to land in Japan this space to use for education and ideas, From the summer of 2005 Noshiro, Akita and Akita Prefecture, in cooperation with the event held every summer in the universe.

is a former Japanese female astronaut at JAXA, the second Japanese woman to qualify.

In November 2008, JAXA announced that Yamazaki would become the second Japanese woman to fly in space on STS-131, scheduled to launch in 2010.

Yamazaki retired from JAXA as at August 31, 2011.

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In the space systems sector, MHI is the producer of the H-IIA and H-IIB launch vehicles, Japan's main rockets, and provides launch services to JAXA related to the launch vehicles.

is a Japanese engineer and a JAXA astronaut.

* AMSAT Japan ( JAMSAT ) has contributed to many satellites, in addition to launching its own satellites in cooperation with JAXA: the Fuji-OSCAR series.

BepiColombo is a joint mission of the European Space Agency ( ESA ) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ( JAXA ) to the planet Mercury, due to launch in 2015.

is a Japanese doctor, and JAXA astronaut.

Several copies of this system have been made in JAXA and NASA, and the original system has been transferred to California Institute of Technology with an upgraded setup of tetrahedra four beam laser heating system.

The main contractor will be Bristol Aerospace of Winnipeg, Manitoba and two of the eight scientific instruments aboard will be supplied by international partners, NASA and JAXA.

The champions of the Union maintained that the Constitution had formed, fundamentally, the united people of America, that it was a compact among sovereign citizens rather than states, and that therefore the states had no right to secede, though the citizens could.

They never troubled themselves about us while we were playing, because the fence formed such a definite boundary and `` Don't go outside the gate '' was a command so impossible of misinterpretation.

These microfossils indicate the swamp was `` formed during the Lower Cretaceous period when dinosaurs were at their heyday and when the first flowering plants were just appearing.

The 15th Street deposit is not to be confused with the nearby famous Mayflower Hotel cypress swamp on 17th Street reported in The Washington Post, August 2, 1955, which was probably formed during the second interglacial period and is therefore much younger.

That is why the United Nations was formed so that intelligent men with good intentions from all countries could meet and solve problems without resorting to war.

The State Ballet of Rhode Island, the first incorporated group, was formed for the purpose of extending knowledge of the art of ballet in the Community, to promote interest in ballet performances, to contribute to the cultural life of the State, and to provide opportunity for gifted dance students who, for one reason or another, are unable to pursue a career and to develop others for the professional state ; ;

These were educated men, who, as Mr. Justice Holmes was fond of saying, formed their inductions out of experience under the burden of responsibility.

That development, in turn, formed the foundation of still more significant expansions in later years -- in gear cutting, in circular graduating, in index drilling, and in many other fields where accuracy was a paramount requirement.

In 1868, however, a truce was called between the companies, and the partnership of Darling, Brown & Sharpe was formed.

With U.S. Coast Guard cooperation, the American Boat and Yacht Council was formed to develop recommended practices and standards for boats and their equipment with reference to safety.

A Bureau De La Demographie ( A. Romaniuk, Director ) was formed under AIMO in the Congo, to work in close rapport with the Section Statistique of the Secretariat General.

The issue was acute because the exiled Polish Government in London, supported in the main by Britain, was still competing with the new Lublin Government formed behind the Red Army.

They were stressed in the speeches of Si Mubarak Bekkai when the first Council of Ministers was formed and again when the Istiqlal took a leading role in the second Council.

In late 1957 the M.P. ( Mouvement Populaire ) appeared and in the spring of 1958 the internal strains of the Istiqlal was revealed when the third Council of Government under Balafrej was formed without support from progressive elements in the party.

To minimize the chances of repeating the Balafrej debacle the Ibrahim government was formed.

A recent case in point is Mitchell Canneries v. United States, in which a claim against the Government was transferred first from a corporation to a partnership, whose partners were former stockholders, and then to another corporation formed by the partners.

In an earlier case, Kingan & Co. v. United States, an American corporation was formed for the purpose of acquiring the stock of a British corporation in exchange for its own stock and then liquidating the British corporation.

Another poultice was made from the inner bark of the elm tree, steeped in water until it formed a sticky, gummy solution.

It was not very reasonable to believe that Lucien had procured unprocurable opium and come back to Honotassa with a formed plan to murder her.

The corporation was formed by the Reynolds Metal Co. and the Samuel A. and Henry A. Berger firm, a Philadelphia builder, for work in the project.

A crack corps of 50 pilots was formed from the ranks of volunteers, but the project was halted before the end of the war, and the missiles later fell into Allied hands.