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Hayabusa-2

H-IIA · Robotic Exploration

2014Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center

Mission

Hayabusa2 (Japanese: はやぶさ2, "Peregrine falcon 2") 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 June 2010. Hayabusa2 carries multiple science payloads for remote sensing, sampling, and four small rovers that investigated the asteroid surface to inform the environmental and geological context of the samples collected.

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Mission Facts

Provider
MHI
Rocket
H-IIA
Orbit
Helio-N/A
Pad
Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1
NET precision
Year
Data source
LL2 + NASA
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