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JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

In recent years, JAXA has achieved significant scientific results with its exploration missions in the solar system: the lunar explorer KAGUYA and the asteroid explorer HAYABUSA. As a result of this steady progress, Japan's planetary exploration technology is now highly regarded around the world. Such planetary research is an important step towards understanding the origin and evolution of our planet Earth. In 2010, JAXA will launch the Venus climate orbiter AKATSUKI (PLANET-C). BepiColombo, the joint European-Japanese exploration mission to Mercury, is scheduled for launch in 2014. Along with AKATSUKI, JAXA will be launching the small solar-power sail demonstrator IKAROS, which moves by collecting sunlight on a sail-like membrane. Such an idea has existed for some time but has never before been put into practice. If it is successful, IKAROS will be the word's first solar sail spacecraft.

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