ESA Director General Jan Wörner and President of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Dr Hiroshi Yamakawa took part in an online bilateral meeting on 4 February 2021, confirming the status of cooperative activities between the two agencies. Taking the opportunity of this bilateral meeting, two agreements concerning the cooperation on Hera, an ESA-led mission, and MMX, a JAXA-led mission, were concluded. Prof. Wörner (lower right) and Dr Yamakawa (lower left) signed the Hera agreement, and Prof. Günther Hasinger (upper left) and Dr Hitoshi Kuninaka (upper right) signed the MMX agreement for ESA and JAXA respectively.