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7th May 2021 - 08:05 GMT | by Koji Miyake in Tokyo RSS
The Japanese MoD is seeking help from private company Astoscale to preserve the life of its satellites. (Astroscale)
Japan is exploring sophisticated technologies that will extend the life of satellites already in orbit.
On 8 February, the Japanese MoD contracted Astroscale to research technology relating to the extension of the life of satellites, including fuel replenishment and other consumables, repairing damaged parts and detailed inspections.
Astroscale is a Japanese space business venture founded in 2013 that concentrates on space debris removal. Outsourcing defence work to a private venture company is unusual for the conservative Japanese MoD.
US flies supersonic bombers over South Korea ahead of Trump s visit
US flies supersonic bombers over South Korea ahead of Trump s visit
Tensions Are High Over Pyongyangâs Ballistic Missile And Atomic Programmes, Which In Recent Months Have Seen It Test ICBMs And Carry Out Its Sixth Nuclear Blast. PTI | Updated on: 03 Nov 2017, 02:50:35 PM
Washington:
US bombers overflew the Korean peninsula as part of an exercise with Japanese and South Korean warplanes, the US Air Force said, days before President Donald Trump arrives in the region for a trip set to be dominated by the nuclear-armed North.
Tensions are high over Pyongyang’s ballistic missile and atomic programmes, which in recent months have seen it test ICBMs and carry out its sixth nuclear blast.
There are large, well-trained and well-equipped air forces that are obvious candidates for such a list.
Here s What You Need to Remember: China’s air forces continue to modernize, however, and China’s aviation industry is cranking out new designs quite rapidly. The country is simultaneously developing not one, but two fifth-generation fighters the heavy J-20 fighter and the smaller J-31 fighter bomber.
Qualifying the five most powerful air forces in the world is certainly a difficult and challenging proposition. There are large, well-trained and well-equipped air forces that are obvious candidates for such a list. Then there are less-obvious candidates like Russia. The Russian Air Force, while plane-for-plane older than many air forces, has numbers, the ubiquity of the largest country by size on Earth, a modernization plan and nuclear weapons. It cannot be ignored, and thanks to Putin and his repeated sorties near NATO and Japanese air space, it certainly won’t be. China is
The flights, by bombers and surveillance planes, have increased sixfold in recent years.
The flights don’t actually enter U.S. airspace, but they do require a response by Air Force fighters.
A rise in Russian military aircraft venturing near North America is straining Air Force crews who must meet them in the air.
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U.S. Air Force units stationed in Alaska, near America’s frozen border with Russia, say intercepts rose to 60 a year in 2020, up from just 10 in 2015, according to
Air Force Times. While the aircraft in Russia’s Aerospace Forces don’t actually come near Alaskan airspace, they do require the Air Force to sortie a number of planes, from F-22 Raptors to tankers, to meet them.