Hayabusa2

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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 near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu on 27 June 2018. It surveyed the asteroid for a year and a half and took samples. It left the asteroid in November 2019 and returned the samples to Earth on 5 December 2020 UTC. Its mission has now been extended through at least 2031, when it will rendezvous with the small, rapidly-rotating asteroid 1998 KY26.

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Hayabusa 2; Hayabusa-2
space probe, sample-return mission, H-IIA
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    2014-12-03T00:00:00Z
    2014-12-03T00:00:00Z
    2014 Hayabusa2
    2018-06-27T00:00:00Z
    2018-06-27T00:00:00Z
    orbital activity
    2019-07-11T00:00:00Z
    2019-07-11T00:00:00Z
    soft landing
    2020-12-05T00:00:00Z
    2020-12-05T00:00:00Z
    landing
    2014-12-03T00:00:00Z
    2014-12-03T00:00:00Z
    rocket launch
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    Hayabusa2 returned samples given to NASA
    Hayabusa2 returned samples given to NASAHayabusa2 returned samples given to NASA
    Estrack engineering team members at ESOC working on Hayabusa-2 tracking support. Image Credit: ESA - CC BY-SA IGO 3.0
    Estrack engineering team members at ESOC working on Hayabusa-2 tracking support. Image Credit: ESA - CC BY-SA IGO 3.0
    Hayabusa2 spacecraft's orbit
    Swing-by an der Erde (27533646598)
    Hayabusa2 MASCOT closeup
    Hayabusa2 front view
    Umlaufbahnen (40508780855)
    Hayabusa2 side view