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As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims look at how close we really are extracting rare minerals ...

The solid-fuel rocket lifted off from the Uchinoura Space Center in Kimotsuki, Kagoshima Prefecture, at around 9:50 a.m., JAXA said. About 10 minutes after the launch, however, JAXA officials ...