Small carry-on impactor of Hayabusa2

Small carry-on impactor of Hayabusa2

Employees of Nippon Koki Co., which designed a small carry-on impactor mounted on Japan's Hayabusa2 space probe, celebrate at the company's factory in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on April 5, 2019, after the spacecraft ejected the impactor over the Ryugu asteroid to create an artificial crater, part of its mission 300 million kilometers from Earth. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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