Japan's Space Front: New Missions for Planetary Defense, Orbital Transport, and Early Universe Discoveries Unveiled This Week

Space Exploration

This week, Japan's space exploration efforts saw significant advancements, including new collaborations in planetary defense, innovative orbital transfer vehicle development, successful deployment of an origami-inspired space antenna, and a groundbreaking discovery of an ancient galaxy.

Japan JAXA Space Exploration Planetary Defense Space Technology

4 Questions Medium Ages 12+ May 18, 2026

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1 What near-Earth asteroid will the joint ESA-JAXA Ramses mission study as part of their deepened planetary defense cooperation, announced this week?

A Vesta
B Ceres
C Apophis
D Ryugu

2 Which Japanese corporation, supported by JAXA's Space Strategy Fund, recently launched a project to develop an Orbital Transfer Vehicle (OTV) aiming for the first implementation in Asia?

A Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
B ispace
C NEC Corporation
D Toyota

3 JAXA successfully demonstrated the deployment of an origami-folded antenna structure in space, expanding to how many times its compact launch size?

A 5 times
B 10 times
C 25 times
D 50 times

4 An international research team led by Japanese institutions recently used which space telescope to observe LAP1-B, an ultra-faint galaxy providing evidence of the universe's earliest stars?

A Hubble Space Telescope
B James Webb Space Telescope
C Spitzer Space Telescope
D Chandra X-ray Observatory

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