Japan’s Hayabusa 2 Dispatches Third Lander To Asteroid Ryugu

HOUSTON—The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has done it for a third time—successfully delivering a small lander spacecraft to the surface of an asteroid. This time it has landed the German/French Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout (Mascot) onto the surface of Ryugu, a 1-km (0.6 mi.) long...

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