{"id":49259,"date":"2025-04-30T17:20:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T09:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/jaxa-selects-aerospacelab-to-build-platform-for-samrai-demonstration-mission\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T17:20:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T09:20:55","slug":"jaxa-selects-aerospacelab-to-build-platform-for-samrai-demonstration-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/jaxa-selects-aerospacelab-to-build-platform-for-samrai-demonstration-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"JAXA Selects Aerospacelab to Build Platform for SAMRAI Demonstration Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The <b>Japan Exploration Agency<\/b> (JAXA) has selected <b>Aerospacelab<\/b>, in partnership with <b>Mitsui Bussan Aerospace<\/b> (MBA), to supply the satellite platform to host JAXA\u2019s SAMRAI payload in a demonstration mission.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is Aerospacelab\u2019s first work with both MBA and JAXA. Aerospacelab is based in Belgium and has operations in Europe and the U.S.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Aerospacelab said that the \u201ccommercial agreement was made possible through the strategic support of Mitsui Bussan Aerospace,\u201d and noted the deal marks an expansion into new markets.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to JAXA, the SAMRAI mission, which stands for Scanning Array for hyper-Multispectral RAdiowave Imaging, is a small demonstration satellite equipped with a microwave observation sensor. It will demonstrate next-generation microwave observation technology that can make observations in both ultra-wideband and high frequency resolution.<\/p>\n<p>Aerospacelab said more details about the mission will be available in coming months.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis partnership with Mitsui Bussan Aerospace and JAXA represents a major milestone for us\u201d, said Beno\u00eet Deper, CEO of Aerospacelab. \u201cBeing selected and recognized as a trusted partner by JAXA is a tremendous honor and a clear endorsement of our technology, innovation, and commitment to delivering competitive, high-performance spacecraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japan Exploration Agency (JAXA) has selected Aerospacelab, in partnership with Mitsui Bussan Aerospace (MBA), to supply the satellite platform to host JAXA\u2019s SAMRAI payload in a demonstration mission.&nbsp; This is Aerospacelab\u2019s first work with both MBA and JAXA. Aerospacelab is based in Belgium and has operations in Europe and the U.S.&nbsp; Aerospacelab said that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}