LignoSat, the world’s first wood satellite, was recently released into space from the International Space Station.

Japan's wooden satellite has been launched into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a mission to prove that wood can be a viable material for use in space.… LignoSat is a 10 cm cubesat ...

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 ...

A Japanese space startup says its second attempt to launch a rocket carrying satellites into orbit had been aborted minutes ...

Japan is off to a shaky start in its efforts to break into the space rocket market dominated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX. By River Akira Davis and Hisako Ueno Reporting from Tokyo Japan halted an ...

Space startups in Japan and India said on Tuesday they had agreed to jointly study using laser-equipped satellites to remove ...

Learn more about the completion of the first Japanese host satellite, QZS-6, integrated with a U.S. space domain awareness ...

Space One aims to be Japan’s first company to put a satellite into orbit, hoping to boost Japan’s lagging space industry with a small rocket for an affordable space transport business.

Space startups in Japan and India said on Tuesday they had ... for in-space services such as de-orbiting a defunct satellite and extending a spacecraft's life. Carved out from Japanese satellite ...