Japan is due to fire a H-IIA rocket into space tomorrow, with a rather special payload aboard: The Ikaros space yacht, a beautiful vehicle that’s an experimental test bed for solar sail technology.

Icarus is getting another shot at fame. Next month, Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency plans to send a craft - actually it's more of a solar sail - into space with name of Ikaros. ("Ikaros"is an ...

The development of a haematopoietic stem cell (HSC) into a T lymphocyte requires the loss of stem cell properties and the acquisition of T-cell characteristics, which is accompanied by changes in ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) performed an attitude control experiment (*1) of the solar sail of the Small Solar Power Sail Demonstrator "IKAROS," after its deployment, using an ...

In a scientific breakthrough that aids our understanding of the internal wiring of immune cells, researchers at Monash University in Australia have cracked the code behind IKAROS, an essential protein ...

It didn’t move far — just one block up Eastern Avenue — but the new Ikaros is a world apart from the original, which the Kohilas brothers opened in 1969. Sometimes bigger is better. The new Ikaros, ...

Eurazeo has acquired a majority stake in Ikaros Solar, a Belgian solar PV company. The sellers include Capenergie 2, a fund managed by Omnes Capital. Eurazeo has committed to invest up to 45 million ...

Although the idea of a solar sail was first proposed some 100 years ago, to date none has been successfully used in space as a primary means of propulsion. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA ...

Ikaros provides you with a lot of, effectively, metadata about the world around you. He’ll show you things like the level of enemies and, later, their patrol paths. He’ll also tag the locations of ...

LJI Associate Professor Ferhat Ay, Ph.D., and UC San Diego graduate student Daniela Salgado-Figueroa co-led the new research with scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School.