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In December 2020, Hayabusa 2, an asteroid explorer operated by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, released from above Australia a capsule containing roughly 5.4 grams of soil and rock samples ...

Hayabusa 2 builds on the success of the original Hayabusa ... Hayabusa returned to Earth with the tiniest hopes of having captured samples from Itokawa, an asteroid 115 million kilometres away ...

The plan all along has been for Hayabusa2 to retrieve samples of the diamond-shaped asteroid ... $714 Apple Watch Ultra 2, $23 Fire TV Stick 4K, more JAXA engineers waited patiently for the ...