The Hayabusa 2 project team is considering conducting a comparative study of the asteroid and Ryugu since 1998KY26 is also likely to have rich natural resources, such as water and carbon.

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 ...

It’s been a couple of months since the Japanese space agency (JAXA) deployed robots to the surface of the asteroid known as Ryugu. The Hayabusa-2 “mothership” sent the bots down to examine ...

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The asteroid probe Hayabusa2, sent by the Japanese space agency JAXA, made two attempts to collect material from the surface of the space rock Ryugu. As the now-returned samples reveal ...

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T he asteroid sample, coded A0180, was collected by the Japanese Space Agency’s (JAXA) Hayabusa 2 probe in 2018. This mission marked a significant milestone as the first successful retrieval of ...

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 ...

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OKEANOS sought to build on JAXA's success in returning samples from asteroids to Earth. Its most well-known mission in that regard was Hayabusa-2, which returned samples from the asteroid Ryugu in ...

According to Hayabusa-2’s mission manager, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) only needs around 0.1 grams of dust to conduct all of its research. Earth has known about the existence ...