Japan’s Hayabusa 2 space probe will continue its long and remarkable journey to another heavenly body after it delivers asteroid samples to Earth later this year, education minister Koichi ...

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Hayabusa-2 is expected to return to Earth in late 2020, completing its successful multi-year mission. Japan's space agency, Jaxa, said the collected samples could shed light on the origins of the ...

Later in the mission, Hayabusa-2 will use a projectile to excavate fresh material from beneath Ryugu's surface Even further on in the mission, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (Jaxa ...

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Japan's space agency has repurposed its Hayabusa-2 spacecraft to intercept two distant asteroids and test technology to ...

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JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ... and it's taught us a lot about our solar system's history. Hayabusa 2 is now on an extended mission to visit two other asteroids.

more It’s impossible to overstate just how well things turned out for Hayabusa 2. After getting their first good look at Ryugu’s surface, JAXA quickly realized that gathering samples was going ...

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during the Hayabusa 2's first landing attempt in February last year. A team of researchers, primarily from the University of Tokyo and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), noted numerous ...