2009
| December 4 | [updated] |  Solar sail "IKAROS x Light Sail" Support Campaign
-- Let's set sail for the solar system by a solar yacht! -- |
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| November 24 | [updated] | HAYABUSA: Resumption of return cruise by combining two ion engines |
| November 12 | [updated] | Asteroid Explorer "HAYABUSA" Ion Engine Anomaly |
| November 2 | [updated] | Public release of KAGUYA (SELENE) data archives |
| October 28 | [updated] | SRON-JAXA agreement on Space Science |
| October 23 | [updated] | Venus Climate Orbiter "PLANET-C" Nicknamed "AKATSUKI" |
| September 24 | [updated] | KAGUYA research report published in Nature |
| June 22 | [updated] | Last shots taken by KAGUYA's HDTV, TC and other cameras |
| June 11 | [updated] | KAGUYA dropped onto Moon's surface |
| February 18 | [updated] | "KAGUYA" successfully captured Earth's diamond ring |
| February 13 | [updated] | KAGUYA (SELENE) special edition research reports published in Science Magazine |
| February 4 | [updated] | HAYABUSA: Firing ion engine and starting second phase orbit maneuver to return to Earth |