Sometimes it seems as if the history of spaceflight is a long exercise in oneupsmanship with each agency trying to top the others. Case in point is Japan's Hayabusa2 mission, which, following the landing of Philae on on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko last month, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) confirmed was successfully launched today at 1:22:04 pm JST from the Tanegashima Space Center on a mission to not only land on an asteroid, but to bomb it... Continue Reading Hayabusa 2 launches on asteroid bombing mission
Section: Space
Tags: Asteroid, Haybusa2, Japan, JAXA, Launch, Solar System, Spacecraft, Unmanned
Related Articles:
NASA heads underwater to test concepts for future asteroid mission
ESA to test asteroid deflection
NASA visualizes asteroid capture plan
NEOWISE returns first test images post hibernation
China's Chang'E 2 succeeds in thrilling asteroid flyby
OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return spacecraft gets go-ahead
No comments:
Post a Comment