Space
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Japan’s ispace says moon lander probably crashed on lunar surface
Hakuto-R may have miscalculated altitude, says company after losing contact with spacecraftJapan’s ispace said…
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Japan’s ispace says moon lander probably crashed on lunar surface
Hakuto-R may have miscalculated altitude, says company after losing contact with spacecraftJapan’s ispace said…
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Japanese firm’s pioneering moon landing fails
Ispace loses communication with Hakuto-R lunar lander, ending a mission that began more than four months agoA …
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Japan’s next-generation H3 rocket self-destructs after liftoff due to engine failure – video
Japan's H3 rocket, billed as a possible competitor to SpaceX's Falcon 9, self-destructed after liftoff when it…
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Japan’s H3 rocket fails after liftoff in second mission attempt
Next-generation rocket, which Jaxa space agency hopes can compete against SpaceX Falcon, blows itself up after…
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Bizarre ‘whirlpool’ appears in night sky above Hawaii
Phenomenon believed to have origins in launch of military GPS satellite from SpaceX in FloridaA camera on top …
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Attack from space would trigger collective defence, say US and Japan, amid China fears
Antony Blinken says China is ‘greatest shared strategic challenge’ in the region as US backs Japan’s biggest m…
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Water found in asteroid dust may offer clues to origins of life on Earth
Discovery offers new support for the theory that life may have been seeded from outer spaceSpecks of dust that…
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‘Peeing is very easy’: Japanese billionaire returns to Earth after documenting life on ISS
Yusaku Maezawa spent 12 days at the space station, marking Russia’s return to space tourism after a decade-lon…
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Japanese fashion tycoon to blast off for ISS as Russia revives space tourism
Yusaku Maezawa to become first space tourist sent to space station by Russia in more than a decadeThe Japanese…
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX delivers new crew to International Space Station
Tech boss ‘proud’ to be working with space agencies as astronauts begin six-month missionFour astronauts on bo…
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Japanese billionaire looking for people who ‘push the envelope’ for moon flight
Yusaku Maezawa, an online fashion tycoon, needs to fill eight spare seats on the lunar spaceship being develop…
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Spacewatch: Nasa joins Japan’s mission to study sun’s atmosphere
EUVST telescope will study how solar winds emanate from the sun, creating ‘space weather’Nasa has approved a l…
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Asteroid samples leaves Japanese scientist ‘speechless’
Scientists hope dust will shed light on formation of universe and offer clues about how life began on EarthSci…
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Hayabusa2 capsule fireball streaks across the sky on re-entry – video
A capsule released by Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft containing pristine asteroid fragments briefly turned into …
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Japan’s Hayabusa2 capsule carrying asteroid samples recovered in South Australian outback
Released capsule entered atmosphere at 5.30pm GMT on Saturday before landing safelyA capsule containing pristi…
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Hayabusa2 comes home: remarkable space probe could open another window into how life originated
The six-year round trip to an asteroid named Ryugu will end in the red sands of Woomera, AustraliaThe Japanese…
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After six years and 6bn km, Japan’s Hayabusa2 prepares to bring home cargo of asteroid dust
Japanese craft collected dust from the asteroid Ryugu that scientists hope could shed light on the origins of …
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Rock of ages: how asteroid dust may reveal secrets of life on Earth
A six-year mission will soon bring back a few grains of soil that could explain how water arrived on our plane…
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‘It is about our survival’: UAE’s Mars mission prepares for launch
Arab world’s first interplanetary mission will see probe orbit planet for a Martian year to study its climateT…