On Sept. 22, 2006,the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency launched a sun-observing satellite called Hinode, or Solar-B. It ...

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Japan is planning an up to $3 billion satellite constellation aimed at providing synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and other ...

What next? The satellite will be handed over to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency on June 4. It is then scheduled for a September launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, US ...

The United States has one of its six West Coast-based aircraft carriers operating in the Western Pacific Ocean again ...

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Satellite imagery captured Typhoon Shanshan slowly approaching southern Japan on Tuesday, August 27. Emergency weather warnings were in place for parts of southern Japan on Tuesday. Flights between ...

TOKYO—Japan is planning a multibillion-dollar network ... that includes a recent incursion into Japanese airspace. The satellite network is part of a proposed ¥8.5 trillion defense budget ...

(Mainichi) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The scheduled launch of an H2A rocket carrying an information-gathering satellite from a space center on a southwestern Japan island was postponed on Monday for a ...

This is the map for US Satellite. A weather satellite is a type ... China, Russia, and Japan provide nearly continuous observations for a global weather watch.

Japan launched the Kaguya spacecraft on a mission to the moon. Formally known as SELENE, which is short for SELenological and ...