Probes to comets, asteroids and the inner planets flown by the European and Japanese space agencies, including Rosetta, BepiColombo and Hayabusa. A mission belongs here when its cited article names ESA or JAXA as its operator. Members are placed here from their own cited Wikipedia articles, each with a verbatim supporting quotation, so a reader can check why an entry sits in this group. The grouping forms part of the browse path for this section of the atlas.
All Outer Solar System and Small-Body Missions of Other Agencies
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Rosetta Mission (Wikipedia)
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Rosetta was a space probe built by the European Space Agency that launched on 2 March 2004.
Wikipedia - BepiColombo
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BepiColombo is a joint mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to the planet Mercury.
Hayabusa - Wikipedia
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Hayabusa (Japanese: γ―γγΆγ; "Peregrine falcon") was a robotic spacecraft developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to return a sample of material from a small near-Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa to Earth for further analysis.
Wikipedia - Giotto (spacecraft)
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The spacecraft flew by and studied Halley's Comet
Sakigake (Wikipedia)
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Sakigake also served as a reference probe for Halley's Comet
Wikipedia: Suisei (spacecraft)
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to explore Halley's Comet during its 1986 sojourn through the inner Solar System
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