TOKYO - Japan’s space agency today launched a satellite into orbit around the Earth, where it will map the sky using infrared wavelengths.

GeoEye's GeoEye-1 satellite, to which Google has exclusive mapping rights, provides 16-inch resolution. The New York Times combined the photos into interactive before-and-after slides .

Japan has placed a satellite in orbit around the moon for the first time, officials said Friday, in a major space breakthrough for the Asian nation. The $279 million Selenological and Engineering ...

Google has just announced a small but significant update to its maps. Exactly one year after the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan, satellite images on Google Maps of the country have ...

Google Maps Japan earthquake 1 It was a year ago today that a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and ensuing tsunami destroyed a large swath of the northeastern coast of Japan.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency decided to launch the follow-up ALOS 2 satellite with an enhanced version of the L-band radar carried aboard the first mission.

Daichi is Japan’s first purely civilian Earth observation satellite to be launched since Adeos-2, which failed in October 2003, just 10 months after being launched. Adeos-1 failed in June 1997 ...

The system, aboard the Himawari-10 satellite, built by Mitsubishi Electric of Japan, will map the Earth's atmosphere in 3D over the Asia-Pacific region for 10 years.

— A Japanese satellite launched in late January to map carbon dioxide and methane – two common gases that contribute to global warming – will be able to complete its mission as pl… ...