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Hayabusa2 Asteroid 1998 KY26 Rendezvous

1998 KY26 H-IIA 202 | Hayabusa-2

As part of its mission extension, JAXA's Hayabusa2 spacecraft will rendezvous with asteroid 1998 KY26.

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H-IIA 202 | Hayabusa-2

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries | Japan
Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
Status: Launch Successful
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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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