JAXA Asteroid Sample-Return Spacecraft Set To Try Again
Engineers at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) tentatively scheduled an attempt to collect a sample of the asteroid Itokawa on Nov. 19, after running unplanned maneuvers to try to overcome navigation problems that forced them to abort a sample-collection rehearsal. Controllers sent the...
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