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Hyabusa 2

Japan's Hayabusa 2 may finally kick-start the asteroid mining era

20 February 2019

The turn of the decade saw a huge surge of interest in asteroid mining, but now this would-be industry has flopped. Can a tiny Japanese probe revive it?

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