The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, formed from the merger of three predecessor organizations. JAXA operates the H-IIA and H3 rocket families and has conducted pioneering missions including Hayabusa and Hayabusa2, which returned samples from asteroids. The agency''s SLIM lander demonstrated precision lunar landing technology, and JAXA contributes modules and experiments to the International Space Station through the Japanese Experiment Module (Kibo).

No vehicles documented yet for JAXA.

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