Two years after it went dead,

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Two years after it went dead, JAXA’s Hayabusa control team has used new operational sequencing to resurrect a third of the spacecraft’s four ion engines, boosting the Japanese space agency’s chances of returning the asteroid sample return mission to Earth. When Hayabusa began its return on Apr. 25...

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