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Hayabusa2

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Launch dateDecember 3, 2014, 6:22 AM GMT+2
Max speed41,760 km/h
Cost16. 4 billion JPY (2010)
Landing dateDecember 2020 (planned)
Manufacturers NEC Corp
Did you knowOn 21 September 2018, the Hayabusa2 spacecraft ejected the first two rovers, Rover-1A and Rover-1B, from about 55 meters altitude that fell independently to the surface of the asteroid.
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About Hayabusa2


Hayabusa2 is an asteroid sample-return mission operated by the Japanese space agency, JAXA. It follows on from the Hayabusa mission which returned asteroid samples in 2010. Hayabusa2 was launched on 3 December 2014 and rendezvoused with near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu on 27 June 2018.

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