Japan Mulling Next Step After Asteroid Sample Return

TOKYO — Planetary scientists and spacecraft engineers at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) hope to launch their second probe to an asteroid — Hayabusa-2 — by the end of the year, on an ambitious sample-return mission that will put the operational skills they learned on Hayabusa-1 to the...

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