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Footage Of Hayabusa2 Spacecraft Touchdown On Asteroid Ryugu
See multiple views from the Hayabusa2 spacecraft's touching down on asteroid 162173 Ryugu. Credit: JAXA/U. Tokyo/Kochi U./Rikkyo U./Nagoya U./Chiba Inst. Tech./Meiji U./U. Aizu/AIST ...
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World first: Organic matter and water found on asteroid
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Hayabusa mission exemplifies this effort by returning over a thousand tiny particles from asteroid Itokawa. Asteroid Itokawa, classified as an S ...
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‘Building blocks of life’ found in soil taken from asteroid Ryugu
JAXA’s research team announced in June 2021 ... the first time the building blocks of life also exist in outer space. Hayabusa 2 is a successor of the Hayabusa space probe, which for the first ...
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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 ...