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Troubled Japanese Venus Probe Set for 2015 ComebackThe Akatsuki spacecraft may be able to bounce back from a 2010 orbit-insertion failure.
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Doll-Like Robot Will Keep Astronauts Company on Space StationA small robot on the International Space Station could help astronauts on deep-space missions and lonely people on Earth, says one of its creators.
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Japan Wants Space Plane or Capsule by 2022The country is also eyeing suborbital point-to-point transportation.
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Satellite to Watch Solar Eclipse From Space on SundayJapan's Hinode satellite will be the only solar observatoryto study this Sunday's solar eclipse.
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Forecast for Solar Power from Space Is Not Yet SunnySpace-based solar power is still on hold, but projects in the U.S., Europe and Japan have slowly moved forward.
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Asteroid Dust Successfully Returned by Japanese Space ProbeThe first ever samples of an asteroid have been confirmed inside the return capsule of Japan's Hayabusa spacecraft.
