It’s A Touchdown! Hayabusa2 Deploys 3 Rovers On Asteroid Ryugu!
Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched a sample-return mission on asteroid Ryugu on 3rd December 2014. The probe is currently in surveying process of the asteroid and is scheduled return to Earth in 2020. What is Hayabusa2? Hayabusa2 is a Japanese asteroid exploration probe sent by JAXA on asteroid Ryugu. Following its partially successful predecessor Hayabusa, JAXA began work on improving its successor and addressed the weak points of the former. With a mass of 610