If all goes to plan, sometime in 2025, a satellite no larger than a washing machine will orbit 400 kilometers above the Earth, collect sunlight, convert it into microwaves, and beam that energy back ...

TOKYO – Japan on Friday launched the first satellite to monitor greenhouse gases worldwide, a tool to help scientists better judge where global warming emissions are coming from, and how much is being ...

The H3 Launch Vehicle No. 5, carrying the Quasi-Zenith Satellite "Michibiki No. 6," lifts off at a launch pad in Tanegashima Space Center in Tanegashima, southern Japan, Sunday Feb. 2, 2025. Credit: ...

The launch is set to occur between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture.

North Korea informed neighboring Japan on Monday that it plans to launch a satellite in the coming days, despite the United Nations prohibiting it from engaging in such activity. Japan's coast guard ...

Japan's workhorse H-2A rocket flew for the second-to-last time early Thursday morning (Sept. 26). An H-2A topped with a secret spy satellite called IGS-Radar 8 lifted off from Japan's Tanegashima ...

Japan is preparing to launch a U.S.-built satellite Thursday (Feb. 27) to track rainfall and snowfall over the bulk of the world's population, anchoring an international initiative to better ...

Emergency SOS via satellite expanded to Japan with the iOS 17.6 update that was released yesterday, according to Apple. Japanese customers with an iPhone 14 or an ‌iPhone‌ 15 can use Emergency SOS via ...

TOKYO — After a decade-long delay, Japan has committed to building its own regional satellite navigation system by 2020 that will be compatible with the U.S. GPS satellite navigation constellation.

This week, a super typhoon named Soudelor marched massively, ominously across the western Pacific before stomping over Taiwan and stumbling into coastal China. The loop above lets you see it the day ...