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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
May 3, 2022
Musk’s grand vision for 'free speech' on Twitter faces reality check in Asia
Asia is home to more than half the world's population and is the platform's biggest growth opportunity.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 26, 2022
All-private astronaut team returns safely from landmark space station visit
The SpaceX crew capsule carrying the four-man team, led by a retired NASA astronaut who is now vice president of the Texas company behind the mission, Axiom Space, parachuted into the sea after a 16-hour descent from orbit.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 25, 2022
First all-private astronaut team aboard space station undocks for flight home
The flight home was postponed for several days due to unfavorable weather at the splashdown zone, extending the Axiom crew's stay in orbit.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 18, 2021
Will an island in Indonesia become a new frontier in the space race?
A tiny clan on an Indonesian island fears it will lose its place in the world as the nation pursues its longstanding quest to join the space age.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Nov 9, 2021
Japan's Akihiko Hoshide and three others return safely aboard SpaceX ship
Hoshide became the second Japanese astronaut after Soichi Noguchi to fly aboard a Crew Dragon.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 20, 2021
Musk soars while Bezos sues in the new space race
As Jeff Bezos's companies fall behind Elon Musk's SpaceX in the race to return to the moon and launch satellites, they're increasingly resorting to politics and legal filings to get ahead.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 19, 2021
SpaceX capsule with world's first all-civilian orbital crew splashes down off Florida
The mission marked the debut flight of Elon Musk's new space tourism business and a leap ahead of his company's competition.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 13, 2021
KDDI teams up with SpaceX to provide better mobile access in remote areas
Musk's Starlink satellites will connect to 1,200 remote mobile towers in Japan so rural customers can experience urban-level mobile connectivity.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 13, 2021
Startups from Japan and Israel to team up to make oxygen on moon
The potential technology could make possible long-term lunar missions independent of Earth in the future.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 24, 2021
Musk-Bezos spat reflects bad space policy
Earlier this month, the U.S. Senate passed a measure that would allot $10 billion over five years for NASA to develop two new lunar landers. Buried in a nearly $250 billion bill intended to boost innovation, the measure was equal to about 43% of the space agency’s total budget.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
May 6, 2021
Japanese startup to carry UAE lunar rover to the moon in 2022
Space exploration firm ispace will also provide communications and power during the journey and on the lunar surface.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 25, 2021
Japan's Akihiko Hoshide among new ISS crew after SpaceX launch
The commercially developed SpaceX Crew-2 Dragon ship carrying a group of four astronauts successfully docked with the International Space Station on Saturday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 25, 2021
As satellites proliferate, telescopes go dark
Satellites reflect sunlight, causing bright trails across the night sky, which in turn can impede crucial observations or corrupt astronomical data.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 17, 2021
NASA says SpaceX wins $2.9 billion contract for moon lander, with 2024 goal
NASA said Friday it has awarded billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's private space company SpaceX a $2.9 billion contract to build a spacecraft to bring astronauts to the moon as early as 2024, picking it over Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and defense contractor Dynetics Inc.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 14, 2021
UAE partners with Japan's ispace to send rover to the moon in 2022
The UAE is using its space program to develop its scientific and technological capabilities and reduce its reliance on oil.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 13, 2021
Elon Musk leaves Vladimir Putin stranded on Earth
A combination of Russian bureaucracy, military secrecy and a state-dominated economy have failed to foster private space enterprises of the kind driving innovation in the U.S.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 9, 2021
NASA-SpaceX launch of next International Space Station crew delayed
The next launch window for a NASA crew to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX rocketship has been pushed back by at least another two days, to no earlier than April 22, the space agency said.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Mar 6, 2021
Next SpaceX liftoff, carrying Japan's Akihiko Hoshide, eyed for April 22
NASA said Friday it is targeting another launch of a SpaceX spacecraft, due to carry Japan's Akihiko Hoshide and three other astronauts to the International Space Station, for as early as April 22.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Mar 2, 2021
Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide excited to fly aboard SpaceX ship
Hoshide will be the second Japanese person to have traveled on all three spacecraft — the U.S. Space Shuttle, Russia's Soyuz and the Crew Dragon.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 30, 2021
Next SpaceX liftoff with Japanese astronaut aboard targeted for April
It will be the third manned flight to the ISS by the Crew Dragon capsule, developed by the U.S. company Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

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