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LA滞在中には在ロサンゼルス日本国総領事館も表敬訪問。今回のLA滞在中には、NASA長官候補の議会指名プロセスの進展や米国ホワイトハウスによるFY2026(2025年10月~2026年9月)の「Skinny ...
この連載は「MMXはフォボスを目指す!」というタイトルです。では、なぜ、フォボスを目指すのでしょうか?
After power was restored to the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) on the lunar surface, the Multi-Band Camera (MBC) onboard SLIM was able to successfully complete the planned 10-band ...
Solar flares (Note 1), the largest explosive phenomena in the Solar System, are caused by the sudden release of energy that has been stored by the magnetic field in the solar corona "twisting". Solar ...
JAXA能代ロケット実験場の公認キャラクターです。 燃焼試験などで使用する「液体水素」がモチーフになっています。 普段はマイナス253度の液体水素貯槽内に住んでいます。 みんなの ...
巨大な爆発現象である「太陽フレア」は、「磁場のねじれ(磁気ヘリシティ)」が蓄積することで発生しますが、これまでどのように磁気ヘリシティが蓄えられるのかは分かっていません ...
The JAXA-developed Thermal InfraRed Imager (TIRI) onboard the Hera Spacecraft, the European Space Agency (ESA) binary asteroid explorer, performed the initial checkout from October 10th to 16th, 2024, ...
国立研究開発法人宇宙航空研究開発機構(JAXA)は、2025年5月15日に小型ソーラー電力セイル実証機「IKAROS」の停波運用を行い、探索運用を終えました。今後は「IKAROS」の追跡業務は行わず ...
We will have a symposium on planetary defense (spaceguard). The main theme of this symposium is the issue of celestial bodies colliding with the Earth, and we would like to hold a wide-ranging ...
Binary star systems, where two stars orbit one another while exchanging matter and influencing each other gravitationally, hold the key to unraveling cosmic mysteries. Among these, Cygnus X-3 stands ...
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will complete operations for the Small Scale Solar Powered Sail Demonstration Satellite, IKAROS (the Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation Of ...
“How were the two Martian moons, Phobos and Deimos, formed?” There are two leading hypotheses: the asteroid-capture origin, which is suggested by their surface color and texture, and the giant-impact ...