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Last Working Engine of Hayabusa2 Asteroid Probe Breaks Down

Tokyo, Oct. 1 (Jiji Press)--The only working ion engine on Japan's Hayabusa2 unmanned probe, which is on an extended mission to its new target asteroid after bringing samples from asteroid Ryugu to Earth in December 2020, has broken down, it was learned Thursday. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, aims to continue the mission by employing usable parts of two other failed ion e...

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