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
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