Focus: Asia-Pacific

Goonhilly CEO Ready for Aggressive Expansion
Goonhilly Earth Station has been making waves, quite literally, with its deep space antennas. The U.K.-based “gateway to space” has been around since the 1960s, but its new leadership team...
Technology
Goonhilly satellite station. Photo: Gemma Garner (Flickr)
JAXA Launches Satellite Which Creates Shooting Stars
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the Innovative Satellite Technology Demonstration-1 mission today at 9:50 a.m. local time. The satellites were carried aboard the fourth Epsilon Launch Vehicle (Epsilon-4),...
Launch
The Epsilon-4 rocket lifting off from the Uchinoura Space Center on Jan. 18. Photo: AFP