Google has posted the first satellite updates from their partner GeoEye. Their IKONOS satellite took the images of Tokyo and Kamaishi (north of Sendai) on Saturday morning. Video courtesy of NewsCore.

Japan's flagship H3 rocket put a key component of Japan's satellite navigation program to eventually wean the nation off its dependence on foreign satellites into orbit on Feb. 2 on its fifth ...

The satellite will be handed over to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on June 4 and is expected to be launched into space as early as fall. It took about four years to develop the ...

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. The L3Harris sounder will be ...