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Japan's Hayabusa2 successfully deploys two rovers on the surface of an asteroid
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Watch Japan’s asteroid probe fire a bullet into a space rock
It was just a couple of weeks ago that the Japan space program, JAXA, announced that its Hayabusa2 probe had successfully completed a maneuver never before attempted in space. The spacecraft ...
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Japan’s asteroid probe shot a bullet at a space rock, and it’s a very big deal
Japan’s space program JAXA has had a very eventful 24 hours. The group’s Hayabusa2 asteroid probe, which arrived at its target Ryugu last year, performed its most challenging maneuver yet by ...
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OKEANOS—A mission that would have returned samples from the Trojan asteroids
OKEANOS sought to build on JAXA's success in returning samples from asteroids to Earth. Its most well-known mission in that regard was Hayabusa-2, which returned samples from the asteroid Ryugu in ...
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Worthy of a Science Fiction Movie: Life Found in a Sample from the Asteroid Ryugu!
T he asteroid sample, coded A0180, was collected by the Japanese Space Agency’s (JAXA) Hayabusa 2 probe in 2018. This mission marked a significant milestone as the first successful retrieval of ...
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Hayabusa 2 Photographs Dark Spot at Asteroid Landing Site
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Hayabusa 2 Successfully Collects Sample From Asteroid Ryugu
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Getting rovers, crab-walkers and microsatellites into space
“The Hayabusa mission had many challenges — unforeseen ... into orbit using piggy-back launch opportunities organized by JAXA. SRL is now turning its attention to establishing a ‘working ...