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

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

SpaceX successfully launches its Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying three NASA astronauts, Michael S. Hopkins, Victor J. Glover, Shannon Walker and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi to the International Space Station. It is the first crewed operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft and the first night launch in the United States since STS-130.
2020-11-15

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

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 announces their schedule for the exploration of 162173 Ryugu by their "Hayabusa2" probe.
2018-08-30

Japanese space probe "Hayabusa2" arrives at its target, 162173 Ryugu, an Apollo asteroid. It is planned to return material from the asteroid to Earth by the end of 2020.
2018-06-27

JAXA launches the unmanned cargo spacecraft Kounotori 6, also known as HTV-6, from the Tanegashima Space Center to resupply the International Space Station.
2016-12-9

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