Professor Saadia Pekkanen, director of the Jackson School’s Ph.D. program and a Japan space expert is quoted by Nature International Weekly Journal of Science in an article discussing the future of Japan’s space agency.
Recently, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), received negative attention after a software error caused the agency’s Hitomi X-ray astronomy satellite to break up in space. The failure had an immediate affect on the agency’s top executives.