Remember that asteroid that isn't going to hit Earth? We could send a mission to explore it
YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...
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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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Japan's Hayabusa2 successfully deploys two rovers on the surface of an asteroid
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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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What's Japan doing on an asteroid?
part of the Hayabusa family." JAXA says Hayabusa2 is scheduled to visit one or two more landing sites on Ryugu before July. One will see the use of a device called an impactor to create a crater ...
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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 ...