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The Japanese space agency, JAXA, launches the space explorer Hayabusa2 from the Tanegashima Space Center on a six-year round trip mission to an asteroid to collect rock samples.
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JAXA
Japan's national air and space agency
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is the Japanese national air and space agency. Through the merger of three previously independent organizations, JAXA was formed on 1 October 2003. JAXA is responsible for research, technology development and launch of satellites…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Hayabusa2
Japanese space mission to asteroid Ryugu
Hayabusa2 is an asteroid sample-return mission operated by the Japanese state space agency JAXA. It is a successor to the Hayabusa mission, which returned asteroid samples for the first time in June 2010. Hayabusa2 was launched on 3 December 2014 and rendezvoused in space with…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Tanegashima Space Center
Rocket-launch complex in Japan
The Tanegashima Space Center (TNSC) is Japan's primary spaceport, covering approximately about 9.7 million square metres. It is located on the southeastern tip of Tanegashima, the easternmost of the Ōsumi Islands, approximately 40 kilometers (25 mi) south of the major island of…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
162173 Ryugu
Apollo asteroid
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