Wikio - Jaxa

July Monthly Seaice (NSIDC) (Climate Audit)

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:16:49 GMT

July monthly seaice data from NSICD is shown below. I have no idea how this reconciles to the JAXA versions that we’ve been following or to the daily binaries. Both extent and area are shown. The SH anomaly has declined markedly with SH winter and the GLB anomaly is slightly negative.

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Statement on Inaccurate Reports About Japanese Cargo Services (Space Ref)

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 06:43:59 GMT

Contrary to news reports, NASA has not officially or unofficially been discussing the purchase of H-II Transfer Vehicles (HTV) -- uninhabited resupply cargo ships for the space station -- from the Japanese Space Agency, or JAXA.

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NASA Statement on Inaccurate Reports About Japanese Cargo Services (Space Ref)

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 06:43:58 GMT

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UPDATE: NASA has no plans to buy JAXA transfer vehicles (iTWire - Latest Headlines)

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:58:39 GMT

As reported by many news sources (but incorrect in their information), NASA announced on July 21, 2008, that the U.S. space agency has no plans to purchase the H-2 Transfer...

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Unmanned Japanese Cargo Spacecraft Could Be NASA's Next Space Shuttle [Space] (Gizmodo)

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:00:04 GMT

With the dinosaur Space Shuttle set to retire in 2010, and Orion due to be finished (optimistically) by 2015, NASA may purchase the $131 million unmanned HTV cargo vehicle from JAXA, Japan's space...

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NASA denies it is buying cargo capsules from JAXA (Orlando Sentinel)

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:17:14 GMT

At first it seemed that NASA might be cooking up an alternative to its plans to resupply the international space station using U.S. commericial companies, or possibly It was distancing itself further from the Russians. But NASA on Monday denied...

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NASA In Talks With Japan Over New Spacecraft (Red Orbit )

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:54:37 GMT

NASA officials have begun talks with Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to purchase units of a cargo transfer spacecraft to be the successor to the U.S. space shuttle.

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NASA discussing Japanese purchase of robotic cargo vehicles (iTWire - Latest Headlines)

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:20:48 GMT

According to a Japanese newspaper, U.S. officials with NASA are negotiating with officials of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) about the purchase of several unmanned cargo vehicles, called H-2...

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NASA eyes Japan's ISS supply vehicle (The Register)

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:58:08 GMT

'Unofficial negotiations' to buy NASA is reportedly negotiating to buy the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV) as a means of ensuring it can fulfil its obligation to supply the International Space Station following retirement of the space shuttle fleet in 2010.…

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NASA looks to Japan for shuttle successor (Orlando Sentinel)

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:00:00 GMT

NASA has begun unofficial talks with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency on buying the H-2 Transfer Vehicle (HTV), an unmanned cargo-transfer spacecraft developed in Japan, as the successor to its space shuttles, which are to retire in 2010, a Japanese newspaper, The Yomiuri Shimbun, has learned.

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NASA In Talks For Japanese Spacecraft (Science - The Post Chronicle)

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:00:47 GMT

NASA officials have begun negotiations to purchase a transfer spacecraft from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency,...

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NASA in Talks for Japanese Spacecraft (Red Orbit )

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:00:12 GMT

NASA officials have begun negotiations to purchase a transfer spacecraft from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, a Japanese newspaper reports. The Yomiuri Shimbun said Sunday the U.S.

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Japanese SELENE confirms Apollo 15 landing spot on Moon (iTWire - Latest Headlines)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:32:49 GMT

According to a press release of the Japanese space agency, a “halo” has been photographed by the Terrain Camera onboard its SELENE (Kaguya) spacecraft, which shows the exact location of...

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NSIDC July 17 Report (Climate Audit)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:28:00 GMT

NSIDC reported on July 17 what we at Climate Audit have been noticing since the beginning of July - 2008 is way behind 2007. Their daily extent number is even further behind 2007 than the JAXA daily numbers that we’ve been following. Despite the fact that they report over a million sq km [...]

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The Yin and Yang of the NeXT Spacecraft (Universe Today)

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:33:18 GMT

Hard and soft. Dark and bright. High and low. Wide and thin. JAXA and NASA. And that's just one spacecraft. Japan's space agency, JAXA and NASA are teaming up to create a new spacecraft to study the extreme environments of the universe. NeXT, which stands for New exploration [...]

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Space agency leaders to gather in Paris (ESA)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:11:00 GMT

ESA PR 31-2008. On 17 July ESA will host an ISS Heads of Agency meeting at which leaders of the space agencies participating in the International Space Station programme (ESA for Europe, NASA for the US, CSA for Canada, JAXA for Japan, Roscosmos for Russia) will take stock of the ISS status and decide on future activities.

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Go Japan (Opinion Dominion)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:29:00 GMT

Farming Solar Energy in Space: Scientific American According to the article, the Japanese are looking into space based solar power: ...by 2030 the agency [JAXA, Japan's equivalent to NASA] aims to put into geostationary orbit a solar-power generator that will transmit one gigawatt of energy to Earth, equivalent to the output of a large nuclear power plant. The energy would...

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Jaxtr Makes International Calls Cheap and Easy; Raises 0M to Go ... - Mashable (Matt's blog)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:50:00 GMT

Jaxtr Makes International Calls Cheap and Easy; Raises 0M to Go ... Mashable, CA - Jun 23, 2008 That call is then routed over VoIP and I use my a Jaxa credits to pay for it (1 Jax = ~ 1 minute of call time for most locations, priced at 0 for 1000 Jax) ...

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Japan’s New Space Energy Program (thomasfortenberry.net)

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:34:49 GMT

Later this year the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is set to test their new microwave energy system, which is part of their Space Solar Power System (SSPS). This ground test — beaming microwave energy through the air to a rectenna microwave-to-electricity convertor — will be the first step in launching their new space-based [...]

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Get the Moon in HD for 3800 Yen (23€) (Akihabara)

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:45:58 GMT

Look what I just received this morning ! Yes the NHK HD video of the moon ! For those who were stuck under a rock for the last couple of months, the JAXA (Japanese equivalent to the NASA) with Canon and NHK decided to sent a satellite to the moon and shoot HD video of our little dead planet and to sell this unique Experience to any Blu-Ray player owners... This is my PS3 which will be happy...

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