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Hayabusa2 fired a laser at an asteroid while flying past at 5.3 kilometres a second
Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft pulled off a maneuver in July that no space agency had managed before, aiming a laser at a small ...
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Hayabusa2 just made space history with a first laser experiment around an asteroid
Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft has achieved the first successful laser ranging experiment performed during an asteroid flyby, ...
Spread the loveIt was September 6, 2026, a date that quietly etched itself into the annals of planetary defense history, even ...
As the United States of America celebrated its 250th birthday on terra firma with fireworks displays this weekend, two Asian countries made some splashes of their own farther from Earth. On Sunday, an ...
A Japanese space probe performed a flyby of a near-Earth asteroid on Sunday in a test mission for technology that could help protect the planet from space rocks. The fridge-sized Hayabusa2 was due to ...
Asteroid Torifune as seen by Hayabusa2 from a little more than half a mile away JAXA / The University of Tokyo / Chiba Institute of Technology / Institute of Science Tokyo / AIST / Paris Observatory / ...
A newly discovered asteroid estimated to be about 62 feet wide will zoom near Earth on Monday, though it is not expected to pose a threat to the planet. The asteroid, officially known as 2026 JH2, ...
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