January 2019
Visiting an asteroid to find out how life began
... and Mars. It was almost certainly once part of a larger body from the asteroid belt, a region of rocky debris left over from the planet formation process that sits between Mars and Jupiter. Ryugu is a C-type...
October 2023
Remote sensing by satellite - People’s Republic of China
... 1-02 [2019] suffered a breakup event on 18 March 2021, probably after an accidental collision with space debris. Yunhai 2 is a constellation of military meteorological satellites. The satellites reportedly use Global Navigation Satellite System...
22 February 2019
Success for Hayabusa2 as it touches down on Ryugu
... kilometres from Earth to then fire a metal projectile into the rocky surface and collect any dislodged debris it can grab. Hayabusa2 headed to its pre-chosen location on the asteroid Ryugu just before 23:00 GMT on 21 February...
19 July 2019
China's Tiangong-2 space lab to deorbit today
... it would be coming down, except that it would be during 19 July Beijing time, they indicated that any remaining debris not burnt up during reentry, may fall “in a safe area in the South Pacific.” Building on the experience gained...
