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The JAXA lunar probe "SLIM" achieves the first-ever lunar soft landing of a Japanese spacecraft.
2024-01-19

JAXA launches the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) lunar lander from Tanegashima Space Center. The Japanese mission will aim to become the fifth country to perform a soft landing on the Moon.
2023-09-6

Hakuto-R Mission 1, an uncrewed lunar lander built by Japanese aerospace company ispace, is presumed lost after the company lost contact with the spacecraft during descent to the lunar surface. Onboard was the Emirates Lunar Mission rover "Rashid", along with a transformable robot, "SORA-Q", built by Tomy and JAXA.
2023-04-25

JAXA space probe "Hayabusa2" delivers the first ever subsurface asteroid samples to Earth. The capsule, containing a small amount of material from Apollo asteroid 162173 Ryugu, landed in the Australian outback.
2020-12-5

The European Space Agency-JAXA space probe BepiColombo makes its final gravity assist around Earth, and is now on course for Venus, where it will make several gravity assist manoeuvres before finally arriving at Mercury in 2025.
2020-04-10

JAXA's "Hayabusa2" space probe makes its second successful and final landing on Apollo asteroid 162173 Ryugu.
2019-07-11

JAXA space probe "Hayabusa2" successfully fires a bullet at Apollo asteroid 162173 Ryugu, forming a crater which will be used to collect underground samples.
2019-04-5

Arianespace launches the European Space Agency–Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency probe "BepiColombo" from Guiana Space Centre as it begins a 7-year journey to Mercury. It is the final mission of the Horizon 2000+ program.
2018-10-19

The Japanese space agency JAXA announces that a pair of 18 cm tall robots successfully landed on asteroid Ryugu.
2018-09-22

The Japanese space agency, JAXA, launches the space explorer "Hayabusa2" from the Tanegashima Space Center on a six-year roundtrip mission to the asteroid (162173) 1999 JU3 to collect rock samples.
2014-12-3