Three years ago, JAXA = Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's probe "Hayabusa3" succeeded in bringing back samples from the asteroid Ryugu. Tsutomu Hayami, Deputy Director of the Saga City Starry Sky Learning Center: "It's not an exaggeration at all, but it will go down in history" Hayabusa2 is currently moving through space, about 3 million kilometers from Earth.
It is scheduled to make its closest approach to an asteroid named "2026CC2001"