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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

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

As predicted by NASA, the Apollo-group-type asteroid 2012 TC4 (approximately 15 m in diameter) passes a distance of 0.0003352 AU mi from Earth, well within the Moon's orbit.
2017-10-12

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 JAXA probe Akatsuki successfully enters orbit around Venus five years after the first attempt. This mission is Japan's first successful mission to another planet. The orbital injection was achieved using the probe's attitude control thrusters, a feat which has never been done before.
2015-12-7

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