Rocket Lab launched a Japanese technology-demonstrating satellite to orbit from New Zealand on Saturday night (Dec. 13).

Rocket Lab successfully launches JAXA’s RAISE-4 technology demonstration satellite on the Electron rocket from New Zealand, marking its first direct mission for Japan’s space agency ...

Phone users in Japan are now able to use Apple's Messages via satellite feature, Apple said today. Messages via satellite ...

Japan's space agency will launch a satellite in February to enable the country to stably operate its own geolocation system ...

Michibiki No. 7 satellite will be launched on an H3 rocket from Tanegashima Island in Kagoshima prefecture on Feb. 1 - ...

The H3 Launch Vehicle No. 5, carrying the Quasi-Zenith Satellite "Michibiki No. 6," lifts off at a launch pad in Tanegashima Space Center in Tanegashima, southern Japan, Sunday Feb. 2, 2025. Credit: ...

Japan's workhorse H-2A rocket flew for the second-to-last time early Thursday morning (Sept. 26). An H-2A topped with a secret spy satellite called IGS-Radar 8 lifted off from Japan's Tanegashima ...

Japan launched its newest flagship-class environmental satellite Jan. 24 on a three- to five-year mission that experts here said could breathe new life into a civilian Earth observation program that ...

In May 2025, Messages via Satellite came to Mexico as part of the iOS 18.4 update. Apple says Japan is the newest country to ...

Apple has announced that, starting today, satellite messages will be available in Japan for iPhone 14 or later or Apple Watch ...

This image made from video shows Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' H2A rocket in Tobishima, Japan, Sept. 25, 2024. (AP Photo) This image made from video shows Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' H2A rocket in ...

A Japanese satellite recorded unprecedented observations of the Perseus galaxy before it disappeared from contact, scientists said, offering precious new information about how gas travels in the ...