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Japan space agency developing world's smallest satellite-launch rocket

SAGAMIHARA, Japan, Nov. 22 Kyodo - Hiroto Habu, an assistant professor at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, poses with the TRICOM1 ultra small satellite developed by the University of Tokyo, at JAXA's facility in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Nov. 22, 2016. JAXA said it will launch the world's smallest rocket, which is around 10 meters long, about 50 centimeters in diameter and weighs 2.6 tons, to put the satellite into Earth orbit from the Uchinoura Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, by the end of March 2017.

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Toyota unveils ultra-small hybrid car at Geneva Motor Show

GENEVA, Switzerland - Toyota Motor Corp. unveils the prototype of its ultra-small hybrid passenger car iQ at the Geneva Auto Show on March 4, with Toyota President Katsuaki Wanabe (3rd from L) in attendance. Toyota says it plans to launch the four-seat vehicle in Europe and Japan.

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Kansai Electric Power creates coin-op electric vehicle charger

OSAKA, Japan - A handout photo shows a coin-operated battery charger for motorized bicycles and ultra-small electric vehicles jointly developed by Kansai Electric Power Co., Tohoku Electric Power Co., Hokuriku Electric Power Co. and Kyushu Electric Power Co. Using the charger, operated with 100 yen coins, a four-wheel motorized car can move an average of 10 kilometers per charge of one hour, Kansai Electric Power said.

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Osaka University's compact and lightweight flexible thermoelectric conversion device

Associate Professor Toru Sugawara of the Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, and Assistant Professor Kenzo Iwayano of the Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, and their colleagues have succeeded in reducing the size and weight of a flexible thermoelectric conversion device in which semiconductor chips are mountedon a flexible substrate. The new device converts the temperature difference between the two ends of the semiconductor into electrical information, and is equipped with a high density of about 200 ultra-small semiconductor chips per square centimeter, achieving high heat recovery efficiency and operational reliability. The flexible device, which was developed in 2018, has been improved. The new device uses semiconductor chips that are precisely aligned in size through ultra-fine processing that exceeds conventional methods. (Photo taken on March 17, 2020, location unknown, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

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Kansai Electric Power creates coin-op electric vehicle charger

OSAKA, Japan - A handout photo shows a coin-operated battery charger for motorized bicycles and ultra-small electric vehicles jointly developed by Kansai Electric Power Co., Tohoku Electric Power Co., Hokuriku Electric Power Co. and Kyushu Electric Power Co. Using the charger, operated with 100 yen coins, a four-wheel motorized car can move an average of 10 kilometers per charge of one hour, Kansai Electric Power said.

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Toyota unveils ultra-small hybrid car at Geneva Motor Show

GENEVA, Switzerland - Toyota Motor Corp. unveils the prototype of its ultra-small hybrid passenger car iQ at the Geneva Auto Show on March 4, with Toyota President Katsuaki Wanabe (3rd from L) in attendance. Toyota says it plans to launch the four-seat vehicle in Europe and Japan. (Kyodo)

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Ultra-small drone to be used for Swiss team's ocean plastic trash study

An ultra-small drone is shown in the port of Bordeaux, France, on March 11, 2015, ahead of its use by the Swiss environmental protection group "Race for Water" during its round-the-world research odyssey to study the impact of plastic trash pollution on the global marine environment. The research will focus on five gigantic plastic trash patches in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese venture's satellite rocket plan

Japanese businessman Takafumi Horie (L) and Takahiro Inagawa, president of Interstellar Technologies Inc., attend a press conference in Tokyo on March 19, 2019. The venture firm, established by Horie, plans to develop the Zero rocket to carry an ultra-small satellite with a weight of less than 100 kilograms and launch the first of its kind into space in 2023. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese venture's satellite rocket plan

Photo taken March 19, 2019, in Tokyo shows a model of Interstellar Technologies Inc.'s Zero rocket that will carry an ultra-small satellite with a weight of less than 100 kilograms. The space venture plans to launch the first Zero rocket into space in 2023. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan space agency developing world's smallest satellite-launch rocket

The TRICOM1 ultra small satellite developed by the University of Tokyo is unveiled to the media at a facility of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Nov. 22, 2016. JAXA said it will launch the world's smallest rocket, which is around 10 meters long, about 50 centimeters in diameter and weighs 2.6 tons, to put the satellite into Earth orbit from the Uchinoura Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, by the end of March 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan space agency developing world's smallest satellite-launch rocket

Hiroto Habu, an assistant professor at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, poses with the TRICOM1 ultra small satellite developed by the University of Tokyo, at JAXA's facility in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Nov. 22, 2016. JAXA said it will launch the world's smallest rocket, which is around 10 meters long, about 50 centimeters in diameter and weighs 2.6 tons, to put the satellite into Earth orbit from the Uchinoura Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, by the end of March 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo