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Hayabusa
The Hayabusa mission, developed by JAXA, successfully retrieved microscopic samples from the asteroid Itokawa in 2010. This marked a historic first, as it was the initial space mission to return material collected from an extraterrestrial body. Scientists utilize these samples to study the compositi...
apps Top Hayabusa Alternatives
The top alternative to Hayabusa in 2026 is Hayabusa2 with a score of 9.3/10, followed by OSIRIS-REx (9.3) and Chang'e 6 (9.2).
Hayabusa2
The Hayabusa2 mission, developed by JAXA, successfully collected and returned samples from the asteroid Ryugu. This acti...
OSIRIS-REx
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft undertook a NASA mission to study the asteroid Bennu. Launched in 2016, it successfully collec...
Chang'e 6
Chang’e 6 is a Chinese space mission successfully delivering lunar samples from the Moon’s far side in December 2024. Th...
Chang'e 5
The Chang’e 5 spacecraft represents a significant achievement in space exploration. Launched by China in 2020, it succes...
DART
NASA’s DART mission successfully impacted the asteroid Dimorphos in October 2022. This marked the first demonstration of...
NEAR Shoemaker
The NEAR Shoemaker mission, a NASA project, studied the near-Earth asteroid 433 Eros. Launched in 1998, it successfully...
Kaguya
Kaguya, also called SELENE, was Japan's 2007 lunar orbiter that mapped the Moon in detail with subsatellites and high-de...
Luna 16
Luna 16 was a Soviet robotic lunar mission that returned 101 grams of Moon soil to Earth in 1970, the first automated lu...
Luna 24
Luna 24 was a Soviet sample return mission that drilled lunar soil and brought it to Earth in 1976, the last Luna missio...
IKAROS
IKAROS was a JAXA spacecraft launched in 2010, notable as the first successful interplanetary mission propelled by a sol...
Yohkoh
Yohkoh was Japan's 1991 Solar-A observatory, notable for a decade of X-ray solar flare and corona observations with NASA...
Akari
Akari was JAXA's 2006 infrared astronomy satellite, notable for surveying nearly the whole sky with a 68.5 cm cooled tel...
SLIM
SLIM was Japan's 2023 lunar lander, built by JAXA to demonstrate pinpoint landing and making Japan the fifth country to...
Geotail
Geotail was a 1992 ISAS-NASA mission that studied Earth's magnetotail, notable for three decades of magnetosphere observ...
Chang'e 2
Chang'e 2 was China's 2010 lunar orbiter, later sent beyond the Moon to fly by asteroid 4179 Toutatis and test deep-spac...
Chang'e 5-T1
Chang'e 5-T1 was China's 2014 test mission that sent a return capsule around the Moon to validate high-speed Earth reent...
Akebono
Akebono was Japan's 1989 EXOS-D satellite for aurora and magnetosphere studies, notable for 26 years of observations bef...
Tianwen-2
Tianwen-2 is China's 2025 asteroid sample-return mission to Kamo'oalewa, designed to return material before continuing t...
Hitomi
Hitomi was a Japanese X-ray astronomy satellite launched in 2016, notable for brief high-resolution observations before...
Nozomi
Nozomi was Japan's first Mars probe, launched by ISAS in 1998, but propulsion and electrical problems prevented Mars orb...
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