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Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) promoted Hayabusa asteroid sample return mission, which was launched in 2003 and returned to Earth in 2010. The retrieved capsule contained many particles originating from the S-type asteroid Itokawa. Based on the Hayabusa's achievements, Hayabusa-2 succeeded to rendezvous with the C-type asteroid Ryugu in 2018. It has accomplished all of the proximity operations such as remote sensing, robot separations, crater formation, landings, and so on, and will come back to Earth in 2020. JAXA is now putting our space assets, from Mercury to Jupiter, which will make the JAXA Deep Space Fleet to elucidate 4.6-billion-year history of the Solar System.
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