In April, 1955, the Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, conducted an experiment to launch the 23 cm-long Pencil rocket. This was Japan's first step toward the completion of the ...
Sagamihara Campus was opened in April 1989 as the main facility of the former ISAS. Amid quiet surroundings with a view of Tanzawa Mountains in the distance, the campus contains the ...
Usuda Deep Space Center was founded to transmit operation commands to deep-space explorers and to receive observation data from explorers. The location was chosen for its environment to receive faint ...
Of the many familiar luminous phenomena, lightning still has many unsolved mysteries. Lightning discharge is estimated to occur 40 to 100 times a second on the Earth. Nonetheless, it was only recently ...
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