Tag: Procyon

  • Japanese scientists abandon plan for asteroid flyby

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    Artist’s concept of the Procyon spacecraft. Credit: JAXA An experimental suitcase-sized space probe launched as a secondary payload with Japan’s Hayabusa 2 mission in December will miss an encounter with an asteroid early next year, according to Japanese scientists. The Procyon spacecraft blasted off Dec. 3, 2014, with the Hayabusa 2 asteroid sample return mission,…