The system, aboard the Himawari-10 satellite, built by Mitsubishi Electric of Japan, will map the Earth's atmosphere in 3D over the Asia-Pacific region for 10 years. The L3Harris sounder will be ...

Japan's flagship H3 rocket put a key component of Japan's satellite navigation program to eventually wean the nation off its dependence on foreign satellites into orbit on Feb. 2 on its fifth ...

Japan's national mapping agency says its satellite analysis has found that Friday's magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Myanmar caused the ground to slip up to 6 meters along a 400-kilometer section of an ...

Japan’s H-2A rocket is set for its second-to-last mission on Thursday, Sept. 26, launching a secret spy satellite named IGS-Radar 8 from Tanegashima Space Center at 1:24 a.m. EDT (0524 GMT ...

The satellite will be handed over to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on June 4 and is expected to be launched into space as early as fall. It took about four years to develop the ...

The Japanese government says North Korea has notified Japan's Coast Guard of its plan to launch what it calls an artificial satellite sometime between May 31 and June 11. Japan's government ...