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June 10, 2015
Japan’s space agency plans an ambitious mission to collect and return surface samples from a Martian moon to Earth, which may provide clues to the origin of satellites in the solar system.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) submitted a plan to a government panel on space policy on June 9. JAXA intends to launch the probe in the early 2020s. A decision has not been made on which of Mars' two tiny satellites, Phobos and Deimos, will be targeted for a landing.
JAXA’s Institute of Space and Astronautical Science said landing on another planet's moon is technologically possible. It said the agency plans to utilize technologies used for the Hayabusa asteroid probe, which returned dust samples of the asteroid Itokawa to Earth in 2010, and a small moon landing probe to be launched in fiscal 2019.
The government panel approved the outline of the mission. JAXA will finalize the plan after examining it more closely.
The probe to be sent to Mars is the first of three midsize spacecraft to be launched in the coming 10 years under the basic space policy approved in January.
As for the second mission planned under the newly authorized space program, JAXA is considering launching a solar observatory satellite.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/sci_tech/science/AJ201506100085
Japan’s space agency plans an ambitious mission to collect and return surface samples from a Martian moon to Earth, which may provide clues to the origin of satellites in the solar system.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) submitted a plan to a government panel on space policy on June 9. JAXA intends to launch the probe in the early 2020s. A decision has not been made on which of Mars' two tiny satellites, Phobos and Deimos, will be targeted for a landing.
JAXA’s Institute of Space and Astronautical Science said landing on another planet's moon is technologically possible. It said the agency plans to utilize technologies used for the Hayabusa asteroid probe, which returned dust samples of the asteroid Itokawa to Earth in 2010, and a small moon landing probe to be launched in fiscal 2019.
The government panel approved the outline of the mission. JAXA will finalize the plan after examining it more closely.
The probe to be sent to Mars is the first of three midsize spacecraft to be launched in the coming 10 years under the basic space policy approved in January.
As for the second mission planned under the newly authorized space program, JAXA is considering launching a solar observatory satellite.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/sci_tech/science/AJ201506100085
