Japan's lunar "princess" shoots for the moon
2137
Japan launched its first lunar probe on Friday, nicknamed Kaguya after a fairy-tale princess, in the latest move in a new race with China, India and the United States to explore the moon.
502117
In less than a month, a little piece of Centennial engineer Laura Ellen Dafoe will parachute to the frigid surface of Saturn&#39;s moon Titan.
732249
A small spacecraft has made it into lunar orbit, signaling Europe's first successful mission to the moon and paving the way for the craft to be used to study the lunar surface, a European Space Agency spokesman said Tuesday.
123123
A SPECTACULAR total eclipse of the moon will be
311547
Solar-B to launch next week Next week, Japanese space agency JAXA will launch Solar-B, an orbital observatory designed to investigate the causes of solar flares and coronal mass ejections, the huge eruptions from the surface of the Sun.â¦
743512
By CARL FREIRE TOKYO - Japan launched its fourth spy satellite Saturday, completing its capabilities to monitor activities worldwide and bolstering its ability to observe neighboring North Korea's nuclear program.
187746
Ion engines might enable homecoming Japanese scientists will next month attempt to guide the country's sickly Hyabusa probe back to Earth, New Scientist reports.â¦
711208
A government panel Wednesday approved plans to send a weather satellite into Earth's orbit by February 2005, in the first scheduled launch for Japan's troubled space program since late last year, an official said.
590964
The launch of the nation's first lunar orbiter signals the beginning of China's long-range goal of sending a rover to the moon's surface and returning it to Earth.
324361
BEIJING, Oct. 24 -- China sent a satellite rocketing toward lunar orbit Wednesday evening, the latest step in an ambitious national program to shoot more astronauts into space, build a space station and eventually land Chinese astronauts on the moon.
20799
Japan launches its fourth spy satellite, which gives its the capability to observe any location around the globe.
457828
Japan is set to launch one of the world's largest geostationary satellites in a bid to improve mobile telephone reception in remote areas, the country's space agency said.
376355
Conservatives keen to keep women from  ascending the Chrysanthemum Throne are hoping this week will  bring the answer to their prayers: the birth of Japan's first  imperial male heir in more than four decades.
216790
Urgent: Japan launches spy satellite with H-2A rocket    TOKYO, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- Japan launched a spy satellite with an H-2A rocket on Monday from Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan's Kagoshima prefecture, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said.
132330
Japan tunes in to witness creature's birth.
682693
Washington pursuing the talks as a way to resolve the two-year-old nuclear crisis. proceed to launch one of its Rodong missiles. reconnaissance satellites and radio traffic, the Japanese government sources said.
11931
PACKING a revolutionary engine that one day may send a robot scout into deep space, Europe&#39;s first mission to the Moon enters a key phase on Monday when the cube-shaped spacecraft is injected into lunar orbit.