ESA to collaborate with Japan in daring asteroid mission

ESA has announced its intent to aid the Japan Aerospace and Exploration Agency (JAXA) with its ambitious Hayabusa-2 mission to retrieve material samples from an asteroid, and return said samples to Earth by the year 2020. Following a successful launch last December atop a H-IIA rocket, the probe will now benefit from 400 hours of tracking and telemetry from ESA's 35 m (115 ft) diameter dish at Malargüe, Argentina... Continue Reading ESA to collaborate with Japan in daring asteroid mission

Section: Space

Tags: Asteroid, ESA, Japan, JAXA, Spacecraft, Telemetry, Tracking

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