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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 ...

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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 ...

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I want to contribute to the developments in space, which is in a period of transition." In the JAXA announcement, Norishige Kanai, the head of the astronauts group at JAXA, said, “I’m truly ...

JAXA’s research team announced in June 2021 ... first time the building blocks of life also exist in outer space. Hayabusa 2 is a successor of the Hayabusa space probe, which for the first ...