Hayabusa2 is a Japanese asteroid sample-return spacecraft built and operated by JAXA. Launched in December 2014, it traveled to the near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu, deployed small rovers and a lander onto its surface, fired a projectile to expose subsurface material, and collected two separate samples before its return capsule landed in Australia in December 2020. Its name means peregrine falcon two in Japanese, continuing the original Hayabusa mission that returned the first ever asteroid samples in 2010.
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Spacecraft TypeAsteroid sample-return probe 2 Status
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- Its mission was extended through at least 2031, during which it flew by the asteroid 98943 Torifune in July 2026
- In Group: Asteroid Probes, Hayabusa2 (Japanese: ????2; lit.?'Peregrine falcon 2') is an asteroid sample-return mission operated by the Japanese state space agency JAXA. It is a successor to the Hayabusa mission, which retu
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Launch Date: December 3, 2014, 04:22:04 UTC; Target Asteroid: 162173 Ryugu
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