Dr. Takano received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electric and electronics engineering from the University of Tokyo, in 1967, 1969 and 1972, respectively.

He joined the Electrical Communication Laboratories of NTT in 1972, where he worked with antennas and radio communications.

He moved to the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan, in 1984, where he was Professor in Radio Tracking. He became Professor in Electronic Engineering in the Graduate School of the University of Tokyo in 1991. He contributed basic research, system management and international projects such as Halley’s comet measurement or the world-first space VLBI. Meanwhile, he founded the study society on space missions with two collaborators.

He moved to Nihon University, as Professor in 2008, and retired in 2014 to be now a Fellow Researcher.

His current research interests include antenna engineering, radio communications, solar power satellite systems, and space tourism. He is the author of 15 books, more than 750 articles, and more than 70 inventions. He received several awards such as the 1992 Excellent Paper Award from IEICE.

Dr. Takano is a member of IEEE (Fellow), URSI, IEICE (Fellow), IEE of Japan, Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences, Japanese Rocket Society, EurAAP, Space Solar Power Systems Society (Director), and Society for the Space Travel of Japan (Chairman of the Board)