2013–2020: New Spacefaring Nations and Sample Return
Hayabusa2
Returned asteroid samples to Earth in 2020.
Era 5 of 6 · full record in the catalog
- Launch
- 3 Dec 2014
- Lead / partner
- Japan
- Target
- Asteroid Ryugu
- Category
- Asteroid sample return
- Status
- Success
- Vehicle
- H-IIA 202
- Mass
- 600 kg
- Orbit / trajectory
- unknown
- Duration
- 6 years (planned) ( elapsed)
Why it happened
Hayabusa2 flew during 2013–2020: New Spacefaring Nations and Sample Return, as part of Japan's work toward asteroid ryugu. A sourced write-up of the context around this mission is still on the editorial queue; nothing here is invented to fill the gap.
The mission
The full narrative of this mission is pending research and writing. What is recorded so far: Returned asteroid samples to Earth in 2020.
Results
Returned asteroid samples to Earth in 2020.
Related missions
Sources & image credits
- DLR German Aerospace Center, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 · license: cc-by-2.0 (source, checked 2026-08-23)
- Mission record: AntarikshPedia canonical dataset (data-sources/missions_timeline.md)
- Specifications reference: NASA NSSDCA Master Catalog
