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Events on Wednesday 27 June 2018 1
2018Hayabusa2 arrives at asteroid RyuguJapanese probe reaches near-Earth asteroid for sample return missionJAXA's Hayabusa2 spacecraft arrived at the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu after a three-and-a-half-year journey. The probe deployed rovers and landers to study the asteroid's surface before collecting samples for return to Earth. The samples were successfully brought back to Earth in December 2020.