Doubt Creeps Into Hayabusa 2’s Planned Visit To Its Next Asteroid
In November 2019, Japan’s Hayabusa 2 mission departed the asteroid Ryugu after 1.5 years of observations. It had successfully collected a sample from the near-Earth object, and in December 2020, the spacecraft returned the valuable sample to Earth. If its mission had ended there, it would’ve been deemed one of the most successful and challenging […]
