Japan's Hayabusa2 asteroid probe has been in orbit around the space rock known as Ryugu for months now, and in February it attempted its most complicated maneuver yet. The spacecraft fired a projectile into the surface of the asteroid and snagged some samples which it will eventually attempt to deliver to Earth, but it mission was far from over. Now, less than two months later, Japan's space group JAXA has cleared the probe to attempt another sample-gathering maneuver, requiring that the spacecr...
Japan's Hayabusa2 asteroid probe has been in orbit around the space rock known as Ryugu for months now, and in February it attempted its most complicated maneuver yet. The spacecraft fired a projectile into the surface of the asteroid and snagged some samples which it will eventually attempt to deliver to Earth, but it mission was far from over. Now, less than two months later, Japan's space group JAXA has cleared the probe to attempt another sample-gathering maneuver, requiring that the spacecr...
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