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Minister of Industry and Commerce visits Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

07-05-2023

H.E. Mr. Abdulla bin Adel Fakhro, Minister of Industry and Commerce stressed the importance of strengthening the foundations of fruitful cooperation between Bahrain and Japan, in the field of space, due to this sector's influential contributions to building a diversified competitive economy based on knowledge and innovation.

This came during His Excellency's visit to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), with the presence of Minister of Sustainable Development Noor bint Ali Al-Khulaif, within the framework of the official visit of Bahrain's economic delegation to Japan.

During the visit, the Minister and the accompanying delegation listened to a detailed explanation of the mechanisms of work of the agency, as one of the most important international agencies working in the field of space exploration, development of space technologies, satellite launches, moon exploration, asteroids, monitoring and protecting earth climate, and many other tasks concerned with space science.​